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TWIN CITY METHODISM 



A HISTORY OF THE 



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MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN, 



WITH 

Illustrated Biographical Department Containing 
Pen Pictures of Preachers and People. 



BY REV. J. WESLEY HILL, D. D 



MINNEAPOLIS: 
PRICE BROS. PUBLISHING CO. 

January 6, 1895 




TO OUR POSTERITY 
WHO HAVE DONE MUCH FOR US 
IX AWAKENING US TO MAKE OUR PART 
OF THE WORLD READY FOR 
THEIR COMING 
AND WHO WILL WISH TO KNOW 
WHAT MANNER OF 
ANCESTORS THEY HAD, THIS BOOK IS 
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 




Index 



MINNEAPOLIS METHODlSn 13 

Asbury Hospital and Rebecca Deacon- 
ess Home 40 

Broadway 27 

Bloom ington^Avenue 35 

Camden Place 32 

First*Church 14 

Forest Heights 23 

Foss 28 

Franklin Avenue 29 

Fowler 36 

Hennepin Avenue 20 

Lake Street 33 

Minnehaha 34 

Park Avenue 31 

Resident Bishops 44 

Simpson 19 

St. Louis Park 34 

Trinity 22 

Twenty-fourth "Street 25 

Thirteenth Avenue 30 

Wesley 15 

Western Avenue..... 24 

ST. PAUL METHODISM 46 

Bates Avenue 60 

Central Park 51 

Clinton Avenue 53 

Epworth 63 

First Church 47 

Grace -. 58 

Hamline 60 

Hamhne University 64 

King Street 57 

Olivet 56 

Oxford 63 

St. Anthony Park 57 

Trinity 01 

BIOGRAPHICAL 69 

Atchison, Rev. R. R 92 

Anderson, Rev. Carl A 129 

Adams, Everett F., M. D 192 

Aldrich, Thomas C 293 

Brill. Judge H. R 91 

Beemer, Henry 95 

Bradshaw, James Balfour 153 

Brooks. Rev. Cyrns 160 

Blake, John D 183 

Brett, Bernard B 187 

Boutell, Paul Dean 201 



Butterfield, Howard Augustus 208 

Billing, Rev. Thomas 210 

Brown, L. A 248 

Bearnes, Tames Nelson 282 

Bridgeman, President George H.,D. D.287 
Batchelder, Loren H., A. M 289 

Coffee, Dr. Charles Curtiss 110 

Calderwood, Willis G 116 

Chaffee, Rev. James Franklin, D. D 167 

Curtiss, Charles Carrol 323 

Dunsmoor, F. A., M. D 101 

Davies. Charles W 107 

Dean, Joseph 143 

Douglass, Rev. John 252 

Drew, A. R.,A. M 292 

Drill, Thomas Taylor 331 

Engle, John D 110 

Edwards, David William 258 

Eustis, William Henry 268 

Earl, Jasper W 346 

Fowler, Bishop C. H., D. D., LL. D 71 

Foss, Bishop Cvrus D., D. D., LL. D 78 

French, Rev. Henrv Hugh 158 

Franklin, P. A. H 198 

Funk, A. L 244 

Farnam, Henry M 249 

Fowler, Charles Hitchcock 278 

Force, Jacob Francis 296 

Goodhue, Wallace T ...203 

Gotshall. Charles Jacob 233 

Goodsell, Bishop D. A., D. D., LL. D....266 

Griffin, Milton J., A. M 290 

Goheen, Mrs. Anna 305 

Goheen, S. M. E . M. D 308 

Hillman, George N 83 

Haves, Warren Howard 93 

Halev, Rev Elijah 97 

Hillman, Silas D 113 

Harrison, Thomas Asburv 117 

Harrison, Mrs. T A ....121 

Hill, Rev. William Edward, A. M 122 

Hair, Rev. George Robson, A. M 131 

Hamlin, Hobart O ^ 146 

Hamlin, Mrs. Anna C 149 

Hamlin, Grant G 151 

Holman, Rev. Fredrick P., D. D 156 

Harrison, Huarh Galbraith 171 

Heard, Rev. C. M., D. D 217 

Hull, Rev. J. C, B. D 227 

Hilt, Mart N 230 

Hanson. P. G 245 

Hamiine, Bishon Leonidas Lent 283 

Harris, Rev. Frank Peabody 303 

Harrison, Thomas^A 306 

Hill, Rev. John W.."D. D 309 

Hall, Levi, M. D 315 

Hamer, Collins 318 

289 



Innis, Rev. George S.. Ph. D 

Tohnson. Joseph Henry 208 

favne, Trafford N 264 

Joyce, Bishop Isaac W., D. 1). LL. D....275 

King, Rev. William Evans, D. D 232 



Lillibridge, Horatio Francis 103 

Langum, George M 112 

Langrell, Reuben Ravner 123 

Lasby. Kev. C. C, D~ D 180 

Lara, M 205 

Landis, William H 213 

Lane, John A 247 

Landis, Cooper W 329 

Marshall, Rev. William Kennedy, D.D..89 

McKinley. Rev. William, D. D 105 

McCarthy, NTathaniel 206 

Mar, Rev. Eugene, D. D 219 

Morrison, J. D 225 

Mearkle, Erastus F., LL. B. 289 

Xelson, Governor Knute .82 

Xorred. Dr. Elizabeth S. Ealbev 188 

Xorthfield, Ezra li>2 

Xewhouse, Rev. Finlev DeVille. D. D...196 

Xinde, Bishop W. X., D. D., LL. D 262 

Xorred. Charles H., M. D 321 

Xelson, Benjamin Franklin 335 

Olmstead, Clinton E 125 

Ogden, J. D 251 

Osborn, Henry L., Ph. D 290 

Pierson, Joseph C, Jr 98 

Payne, Rev. Charles H-. D.D., LL. D...132 

Prentiss. Rev. Lvman Edwin, D. D 190 

Piekard, W. P 211 

Plannette, Rev D C 255 

Price, Matthew X 256 

Pilling. Rev. Edward S 273 

Robinson, Somers C 87 

Rice. Rev. W. C 97 



Rule, Rev. Franklin Marshall 114 

Robertson. W. F 212 

Rvan. Rev. S. E 215 

Rivers, J. F 240 

Rugg, A. B 340 

Seager, Herbert W 109 

Stahl. B. F 127 

Shuman, Rev. Milton G 162 

Stafford, Rev. John, D. D 194 

Smith, Rev. Samuel G., D. D 225 

Smith, Ernest F 243 

Stoat. Rev. T. W 277 

Swett, Wilbra W 280 

Shoemaker, Hannah L..A. M 292 

Sammis, Fredrick C 298 

Strong. Charles D 347 

Strong. Mrs. Abigail Spurr 349 

Tice, Rev. David 164 

Tavlor. George Herbert 177 

Thomas. John W 221 

Touslev, John Weslev 234 

Thompson, William E.. A. M 292 

Vincent, Bishop John H., D. D., LL. D..80 

Van Anda. Rev. C. A.. D. D 221 

Walker. Thomas Barlow 135 

Walker, Mrs. Harriet Granger 140 

Wilson. Gen. George P 175 

Willis, Rev. George W 220 

Wilcox. Rev. C.B.. D. D 223 

Wheelock. Emerson Weslev 299 

Wvman, Tames T 300 

Woodard, J. S 319 

Watson. Rev. Edward L. Ph., D 327 

Zimmer, L. W 243 



Business 



Am. Progressive Investment Co., 


The353 


Bankers & Merchants Life Ass'n., 


The! 75 


Rrowning, King 1 & Co 


362 


Brown & Havwood Co 


... 373 


Bladon, James &Co 


. 374 


Barnabv & Co 




Curtiss Business Colleje .... 


323 


Corser- Belknap Fire Ins. Agencv 


330 


Centurv Piano Co 




Chicago, Milwaukee & St. P. R. R 




Chicago Great Western Railway... 


"".■388 


Drer, W. J. & Brother 




Downs, H. & Son 




Dahl, A. J. & Co, 




Felg-emaker, A. B 




Farrand & Votev Organ Co., The 


356 


<~Uobe Furniture Co 


237 


Gondfellow, R. & Co 


241 


Guaranty Restaurant 


391 


Hayes. Warren H.. Architect 


355 


Hart, A. B.. Phm. D 


379 


Tournal. The 




Johnson-L^ndis Undertaking Co 





Kummerer. M. C 377 

Mutual Life Insurance Co.. X. V.. The. 293 

Minneapolis Dry Goods Co., The 357 

Manitowoc Seating Co.. The 378 

Xew England Furniture & Carpet Co. 368 
X^rthern Hvdraulic Press Brick Co... 371 

Xickel Plate'. R. R., The 276 

Xicholson Bros 383 

Palace Clothing Co.. The 359 

Price Bros. Printing Co 386 

Rusrg Art Studio 340 

Rochester Shoe Co 385 

San Ansrelo Hotel 342 

Smith & Zimmer 243 

Smith, C. A.. Florist 363 

Smith. M. E 380 

Securi'-y Bank of Minnesota. The 384 

Security Mutual Life Association, The. 387 

Vetter, George A., Furrier 367 

Wallace. M. E _ 342 

Walton, Edmund G 3«9 

Wunder, John 390 

Yerxa Brothers 238 



Preface 



Twin City Methodism is the first work of the kind that has as 
vet been published in the history of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. It does not claim the cyclopedia style, for it is limited to 
the interests of local Methodism, and has not dealt with these facts 
in an elaborate manner. It is a plain, simple presentation to the 
friends of the church and to the general reader, of the chief events 
of Twin City Methodism, as gleaned from history and biography. 

The size of the book is no measure of the available material, 
for at times the editor has been overwhelmed by the very wealth 
of information which he has been compelled to condense. 

Twin City Methodism makes no pretension of original investi- 
gation, nor is it weighted down with wearying discussions. Its 
aim is to be a hand book of Methodist information, some of which 
has been scattered through various publications, while much has 
never been placed in book form. 

It briefly traces the Wesleyan stream from its beginnings in 
these cities, down to its present majestic flow. This current of 
Methodist history is well t}^ped by the "Father of Waters" which 
connects the Twin Cities. Its head waters arise noiselessly and 
unseen, steadily gathering breadth and volume, until the roar of 
St. Anthony tells the story of its cumulated power. And so 
from these early streams of influence Twin City Methodism has 
enlarged into a mighty river of Christian life and power, bearing 
upon its bosom the treasures of civilization, and the destiny of 
the great cities which it has enriched with the commerce of the 
skies. 

Not only is the gradual growth and development of this his- 
tory followed through all the important events and emergencies 
that constitute it, but much attention has been given to Twin City 
Methodism in its relation to the individual man; for after all, 
Methodist history is but the story of her people. It is not the 
account of the sublime faith and heroism of the few, but rather the 
picture of the many, in all their relations, peculiarities and identities, 
struggling together to establish the Church of Christ. 



We are thus brought to see the motive principle of personali- 
ties, and to be inspired by pondering their achievements and 
measuring their influence for good upon the world. 

As portraiture is the demand of the times and contributes so 
much to the understanding of biography, it has been made a prom- 
inent feature of this work to have every sketch, as far as possible, 
embellished with a photo engraving. 

Pictures of home surroundings add so much to biography 
that it has been deemed desirable to insert views of residences, 
which give to the work a new feature, the portrayal of dwelling 
places which in the future will become the ancestral homes of 
Twin City Methodists. Scattered through this book will be found 
brief business sketches of leading Methodists and citizens, which 
will not only give some faint conception of the vast commercial 
strides of the Twin Cities but will be of inestimable value to 
young men, showing the essential conditions of business success, and 
illustrating the theories of commercial colleges in the achievements 
of living men. Thus, covering the entire field of Methodist life 
and activity, this book will prove not only valuable to the Metho- 
dist reader, but to the general public, for in it will be found much 
that pertains to the public life and prosperity. 

The editor takes pleasure in referring to the assistance which 
he has received in the preparation of this work from Rev. J. F. 
Chaffee, D. D.: Rev. William McKinley, D. D., and Rev. Chauncey 
Hobart. He also returns thanks to many of his brethren in the 
ministry and membership for important facts furnished. 

The enterprising publishers, Price Bros. Publishing Co., have 
done themselves great credit by the style and mechanical execution 
of the work. Bramblett and Beygeh have done all the artwork, the 
choice character of which should convince the most fastidious that it 
is not necessary to send away from home for first-class work in this 
line. We are under obligations to Leslie & McAfee, the popular 
paper house, for the fine quality of paper furnished by them for 
this book. Doubtless some mistakes will soon come to light, but 
having been corrected we trust that Twin City Methodism will 
prove interesting and profitable to the present generation, and 
furnish at least some important material for the future ■historian. 



J. WESLEY HILL. 



Introduction 



Cities have been called "storm centers." They have also 
been long held as civilizers. Metalic balls are sometimes polished 
by being tied in a bag together and knocked about. Men in a city 
knock against each other, knock off the rough corners, polish up 
the surfaces, enkindle each other's thought, fire up their genius, 
and reach elevations in intellectual activity and noble endeavor not 
otherwise attainable. Cities are centers of power. They are social 
forts. They send out the styles and fashions for the country, and 
draw into themselves like great maelstroms, and consume in them- 
selves all the best and greatest and strongest of the land. The best 
cattle, best horses, best grain, best fruit, best products, also the 
best workmen, best tradesmen, best artists, best lawyers, best 
preachers, best of social beauty and life — all drift on the invisible and 
resistless current that moves steadily and forever toward the cities, 
the centers of human want and power. They epitomize the nations. 
They are microcosms of the races. They make destiny. Great 
as are the cities, great enough to be the luminous points and peaks, 
piercing the horizon as one looks over the ages, yet they are only 
accumulated masses of individuals. As the sun cannot light up and 
guild the broad front of jthe mountain except as it lights up and 
guilds each particle of sand and soil in all that front; sends some in- 
dividual ray of light down on to each tiniest point of exposure, so 
the sweep and history making power of a great city must come 
from the reflections of the deeds and purposes of each of the un- 
numbered individuals that live and love and act and die in its swarm- 
ing thousands. The histories of these individuals, and incipient 
institutions, and solitary churches become the store-house of knowl- 
edge from which the historian finally brings forth the wonderful 



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bulk and cumulative greatness of the story of the people. Without 
these histories there could be no antiquity, no manifest national 
growth and social evolution. A nation without these histories 
would be a man without a memory. 

Time was when there was but one man in a nation, and that 
was the king. All worthy events emanated from him and gravitat- 
ed about him and his doings. The great libraries of past histories 
are filled w r ith the accounts of what he did. History was his story. 
But those times are gone. No longer is the brain of a nation on 
one seat, and its thinking done by one brain. Now thinking is dis- 
tributed. Events have popular parentage. Everybody is inter- 
ested in everybody. Thus it happens that the great Historian is 
the man who writes the history of the People. Green, in his great 
History of the English People, tells of the growth of ideas, of the 
maturing of liberties, of the multiplication and enlargement of in- 
dustries; in short he discovers in history the individual man. The 
battles of kings and the fate of empires are incidental matters, side 
lights exhibiting the common man. 

This unique, unpretentious volume, called "Twin City Meth- 
odism" comes out of the spirit of our times and enters into a field 
of industry and investigation that is barely rising on the horizon, 
and whose continental treasures stretch away in uncounted leagues. 
The individual grains in this new continent may seem insignificant, 
but their aggregate is unmeasured. Some of these biographies 
ma\ r appear to be of the merest local interest, yet they will make 
up the record of a great church and of a conquering people. We are 
not alw r ays wisest judges concerning those nearest us. Even a 
prophet was said to be without honor in his own country. Aristides 
the Just, standing by the box on the square where men were black- 
balled and thus driven into exile, was asked by an ignorant Athen- 
ian who did not recognize him, if he could write. He replied, 
"Yes." "Then," said he: "write on this shell the name of Aris- 
tides." "Why ? What harm hath he done the state ?" asked the" 
statesman. " None that I know of," said the man, "but I am tired 
of hearing him called 'Aristides, the Just'." The old hero wrote 
his own name on the shell, saw it dropped into the box and w r ent 
into voluntary banishment. The man next to him in the public 



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square sent him into exile, but even wandering there he carried 
with him the glory of Athens and by his simple greatness helps 
to carry that same glory through many centuries. It may be that 
the brief and unpretentious biographies, so quietly dropped into 
these pages, with so little appreciation of what they are, may yet 
prove helps by which the glory of our fair cities may be floated in 
the memory of men. 

There is in this volume an omen of good to our Methodism. 
We are bomid together. We may also see a fair degree of connec- 
tionalism. We are members of one family. We are illustrating the 
old law of strength in union. Contributions of life and spirit in 
this book are parts of that great concentration of purpose that can- 
not be resisted. The old fable of the bundle of sticks which the 
dying chief gave to his sons and which they could not break, 
taught the value of union. He separated the sticks and they broke 
them easily. This emphasized the weakness of separation. This 
book may help us as a people to stay in the bundle. 

The great nations are not those that grow by conquest and 
piracy, but those that grow by colonization, that save their increase. 
The problem of Methodism is this, to save her increase. Converts 
at Methodist altars have, kept the great orthodox churches from 
death. If she could reclaim her own, she would be more than a 
match to all other social and religious forces. The movement in- 
spiring this book looks to the arrest of emigrations, and the awak- 
ening of proper immigration, and the careful housing of all our off- 
spring. It also hopes to enkindle a resistless esprit de corps. 

In Westminster Abbey one walks among the buried kings of 
England. But in Smithfield one walks over the ashes of the living 
kings of mankind. These were the men that made the world 
tolerable as a residence. In Methodist history and experience one 
sees the heroes of the race. These are the men that turned the 
world upside down. Magnificent ancestry and richest inheritance. 
It remains for us to so combine and handle our forces that we shall 
have both Westminster Abbey and Smithfield. 

Centuries before these Twin Cities are as old as Londonjmen 
shall marvel at the millions of their citizens, wonder where in the 
unbroken blocks of trade the old lines between the cities were 



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drawn, and shall search their ancient records to learn the stories of 
the youth of these great municipalities. As scholars read with de- 
light to-day the stories concerning Romulus and his first wall, of 
Numa and his first laws; of the creeping of the populations upon 
the seven hills, so in the life of these Twin Cities men shall find 
inspiration to search out their early foundations, and study our 
guiding principles, and follow our growing dominion. This book 
may yet glimmer like a taper directing the researches of patient 
scholars of the coming future to correct knowledge concerning in- 
stitutions and men of our time. The Church that has called it into 
being shall shine like a Divine torch illumining a pathway beyond 
the stars. 

C. H. Fowler. 



Minneapolis flethodism 



In July, 1849, R ev - Matthew Sorin, a "supernumerary" 
preacher belonging to the Philadelphia Conference, while visiting 
at the Falls of St. Anthony, organized the few Methodists living 
there into a class, with John Draper for a leader. This was the first 
step for the establishment of a Methodist church. Minnesota be- 
came a territory March 3d, 1849. The fi rst church of St. Anthony 
was organized four months later, July 7th. The whole popula- 
tion of the territory was 4,680, and that of St. Anthony, now Min- 
neapolis, about 300. The village was about two years old, and 
was little more than a company of settlers living in small, un- 
painted cabins scattered along the river bank. A ferry boat 
made irregular trips across the river not far from the present 
Central avenue bridge. A small log, schoolhouse on Third street, 
now University avenue, between Second and Third avenues south- 
east, served the various Protestant churches for religious services. 

In 1849, the Minnesota District of the Wisconsin Conference 
was formed, with Rev. C. Hobart as Presiding Elder. The first 
stationed preacher, Rev. Enos Stevens, was appointed by the Wis- 
consin Conference of 1849, as a missionary to St. Anthony Falls. 
He was a typical Methodist pioneer missionary, such as most of 
the circuit riders of early Methodism were. His circuit included 
St Anthony, Fort Snelling, Red Rock, Cottage Grove, Point 
Douglass and Bissel's Mound. The next preacher was Rev. C. 
A. Newcomb, who remained two years. Rev. E. W. Merrill, 
a local preacher, served the church in 1851-2. Rev. Eli C. 
Jones was appointed to this mission in 1852 and remained 
two years. During his pastorate, a frame building for church pur- 
poses was erected, at a cost of $1,000. Rev. S. T. Creighton 



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took charge of the church in 1854, an ^ was followed the next year 
by Rev. Andrew J. Nelson. Rev. Sias Bolles became pastor in 
1856. A parsonage was built for him. The church building was 
enlarged during this pastorate. The financial troubles of 1857 
threw the struggling church into serious straights, but through the 
good management of Rev. J. F. Chaffee, the society was able to 
hold its 0\vn. During his two years of service, large additions 
were made to the membership. His pastorate was blessed with 




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one of the most remarkable revivals ever known in the history of 
Northwest Methodism. A year and a half of peace and quietude 
followed under the pastorate of Rev. Cyrus Brooks. He was fol- 
lowed by Rev. Thomas Day. After him came Rev. E. R. Lath- 
rop, who served a year and a half in 186 1-2. He was appointed 
chaplain in the Tenth Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers, and his 
second year was finished by Rev. Wm. McKinley, who remained 
until 1864, through the dark years of the civil war. The pastors 
who followed were, C. F. Wright; F. W. Berry, who after six 



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months of service, died, February 19th, 1866; Harvey Webb, 
who remained three years; J. W. Shank; D. Cobb; W. W. Sat- 
terlee; J. R. Creighton ; S. G. Gale ; Harvey Webb; J. W. Martin; 
T. McClary; Robert Forbes; A. C. Williams; John Stafford; C. 
A. VanAnda; W. C. Rice; J. F. Stout; Thomas McClary; and 
Willian Fielder, the present pastor. 

The old church building was sold for $200 and was moved 
across the street, The new edifice was built on the same lots and 
cost about $7,000. The basement and lecture room were finished 
so as to be dedicated in December, 1872. Rev. Samuel Fallows, 
now Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, preached the 
dedication sermon. During the pastorate of Rev. S. G. Gale, 
1874-5, the main audience room was completed and dedicated. It 
had seats for 500. The building, with parsonage, was valued 
at $20,000. This property was sold in 1890 and the same 
year the church obtained possession of the house of worship pre- 
viously occupied by the Olivet Baptist Church, on the corner of 
Fifth street and Ninth avenue southeast, where its services are 
now held. The church property is valued at $35,000; the member- 
ship is about 350; the Sunday School numbers over 200 and pros- 
perity characterizes all the departments of church work. 

WESLEY CHURCH 

A Methodist class was organized on the west side of the river 
in 1852 by Rev. A. C. Godfrey, a brother of Ard Godfrey, who 
w r as at that time superintendent of the saw mills on the East side. 
The class was composed of Rev. Godfrey and wife, Sister Tuttle 
and her mother, and Mrs. Steele, the mother of Franklin Steele. At 
this time there were but few houses on the west side and most of 
them were rough shanties. In November, 1852, the first quarterly 
meeting of the circuit, of which Minneapolis was a part, was held 
at the home of Brother Godfrey. In 1853, E. C. Jones, of St. 
Anthony, was asked to take the class on the west side, and soon 
after this the Sunday school was started. The first regular place 
of meeting was in the land office which was then situated about 
where the corner of Eighth, avenue south and Washington avenue is 



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now located. x\ short time afterwards the place of meeting was 
changed to a hall in a building which was situated on the property 
now occupied by the St. James Hotel. Here the little class and 
Sunday school worked on without a preacher until the annual con- 
ference of 1856, when Rev. R. McDonald was assigned to that 
charge. He, however, left the work, and Rev. William H. St. 
Claire was appointed. The people began to think of a church, but 
it was not untill 1857, under the pastorate of Rev. J. D. Rich, that 
the little white church on Third avenue south, between Fourth 
and Fifth streets, was built and dedicated. Rev. J. F. Chaffee, 
then pastor of St. Anthony, and now Presiding Elder of the Min- 
neapolis District, assisted in the dedication. In 1858 T. M. Gos- 
sard was appointed pastor. In 1859 Rev. J. O. Rich took charge 
of the church. During this year there was a good revival. In 
i860 Rev. J. F. Chaffee was appointed, and at the end of two 
years he reported to the Conference 159 members and 30 proba- 
tioners. 

In i860, the Minneapolis District was organized, and Rev. D. 
Brooks was made Presiding Elder. In 1862 Dr. Chaffee was made 
Presiding Elder and Rev. Daniel Cobb became pastor at Minneap- 
olis. In his second year he was elected chaplain of the Sixth, Min- 
nesota and went to the war, and Dr. John Quigley followed him as 
pastor. The church had been increasing rapidly, and again the 
members realized the necessity of a new building. Suiting action 
to the thought, two lots were bought on the corner of Seventh 
street and First avenue south, and a church started in 1866. They 
had thought of calling the new edifice the Seventh Street M. E. 
Church, but 1866 being the centennial of Methodism it was de- 
cided to name it "Centenary". In 1867 Dr. Chaffee became pas- 
tor, and in 1868 the new church was formally dedicated. With 
the new location and elegant equipments Centenary Church forged 
ahead. During two years there were nearly 300 conversions. 
Rev. J. W. McGregor was appointed pastor in 1870 and Rev. G. 
C. Wells in 187 1-2. Brother Wells died in May, 1873, and his year 
was filled out by Rev. J. L. Fasig. Rev. A. Hollington became 
pastor in 1873 an ^ officiated for one year. Rev. S. McChesney 
followed in 1874-5. In 1876-7 Rev. Daniel Cobb was again ap- 



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pointed. From 1878 to 1879 ^ ev - Mr. Loyd was pastor. In 1879 
Rev. C. A. VanAnda took charge of Centenary and remained the 
full term of three years. 

During previous years several churches had been organized 
on the west side of the river in addition to Centenary, and each 




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one of them drew members from the mother church. In 1870 
what is now Thirteeth Avenue Church was organized. In 1872 
Foss Church was added, and in 1875 Hennepin Avenue Church. 
Franklin Avenue followed. Rev. Mr. Wagner became pastor in 
1882 and he, too, remained the full term of three years. Dr. Van 
Anda then came back for another three years, and he was followed 



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by Dr. Miller. All these years were marked by steady growth 
and again the church quarters seemed to be cramped. Already 
the idea of a new edifice was slowly revolving in the minds of the 
faithful and the thought would occasionally creep out. In 1889 
Rev. H. H. French, a young man from the East, was appointed 
pastor. The congregations increased and the new church idea 
took quicker motion. Centenary energy could not be supressed, 
and finally, in 1891, ground was broken on the corner of Grant 
street and First avenue south for the new church. Again suiting 
the name of the church to the sequence of Methodist events, the 
year being the anniversary of the death of John Wesley, the new 
church was called "Wesley ". 

In this sketch of Wesley Church we have necessarily used the 
pastors as way-marks and guides in considering its growth. But 
the lives of many of its parishoners are also entitled to special men- 
tion. The three Harrison brothers were in the fore-front of the 
pioneers. Dr. Goodrich also was a hard worker, and the church 
records all through the years have been enriched by such names 
as Bryant, Hamor, Lillibridge, Moses, Calkins, Galpin and Stan- 
ton. The women were not in the rear. If one could see them 
trudging the rounds collecting the weekly subscriptions to the fund 
which was to buy the lots for the Centenaiy Church to stand upon,, 
he could hardly repress his admiration for the faithfulness and 
energy of the gentler sex. Mrs. Geo. Galpin, Mrs. Annie Goheen,, 
Mrs. H. F. Lillibridge, Mrs. William Harrison and many others 
are entitled to great credit for the part they have taken in the 
growth and development of Centenary. 

When the plan for the new church was first outlined every- 
thing was ready except the cash. Where could the money come 
from? The growth of Minneapolis had been rapid and had made 
Centenary Church property valuable. But what was its value to 
the members of the church if they could not realize that value from 
it ? Here, Horatio F. Lillibridge, now in heaven, came forward 
and shouldered the burden. His credit was good and he could get 
all the necessary funds. He purchased the church property at a 
valuation $25,000 higher than the property is worth to-day, but 
lest some cavilling critic should think he took it as a speculation he 



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gave the church a contract that if they could get more for the 
property at any time within two years he would gladly allow them 
to take the larger sum. Mr. Lillibridge mortgaged his best 
property to procure funds for pushing the work. 

So Wesley was built. A beautiful stone structure, mag- 
nificient in its architecture and beautiful and complete in all its 
appointments. The cost of the little white church on Third avenue 
south was a few hundred. The cost of Centenary Church was 
$42,000. And now comes Wesley Church costing in round num- 
bers $150,000. These figures indicate in some measure the growth 
and prosperity of the Mother of Methodism in Minneapolis on the 
west side of the river. She still has on her rolls a few members 
who were with her in her infancy. These have witnessed the early 
struggles, the steady and marvelous growth and then the final 
crowning triumph. 

SIMPSON 

In 1882 J. G. Teter was appointed to Twenty-Fourth street and 
Simpson. Under the direction of J. F. Chaffee, who was that fall 
appointed to the Minneapolis District, two lots were purchased at 
the corner of Twenty-Fourth street and Twenty-Third avenue 
south, and an old church was purchased of the Swedish Methodists 
which w r as moved onto these lots. At the same time, two lots 
were purchased on the corner of First avenue south and Twenty- 
eighth street, and a chapel which is now the lecture room of 
Simpson Church, was built. This church has had a most prosper- 
ous career. It is in the midst of a large, thrifty, American popu- 
lation and has, beyond doubt, a growing outlook. The present edifice 
was built during the pastorate of Rev. ]. M. Bull, at a cost of $17,- 
000. It will seat five hundred. It was a great undertaking for the 
society at the time and some debt was incurred, but happily during 
the present pastorate of Peter Clare, this indebtness has been re- 
moved. This is a well organized, well worked societv and no 
church in the city has the promise of greater out-come. The 
following have been the pastors: 18S2-5, J. G. Teter; 1885-8, J 
M. Bull; 1888-91, W. K. Marshall; 1891-4, Peter Clare. Present 
membership, 400. 



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HENNEPIN AVENUE 

In the early part of the winter of 1875, about ninety members 
went out from Centenary Church and were organized, under 
the direction of Bishop Merrill, as the Hennepin Avenue Church. 
It is not necessary to discuss the merits of the cause which led to 
this separation. But the people who went out, were, in a large de- 
gree, the builders of the church home which they left. They built 




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however, cheerfully and heroically, in mid-winter, a wooden 
structure — the}' called it a tabernacle. It was built on the corner of 
Eighth street and First avenue north, and was dedicated by 
Dr. Chaffee. The society called as their pastor, A. Hollington, 
who had served two years previously, for one year, as pastor of 
Centenary. At the end of one year, he was succeeded by C. M. 
Heard who served the full term of three years. During this time, 
T. A. Harrison purchased the present magnificient site where the 
church stands, corner of Hennepin avenue and Tenth street 



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north. The tabernacle was moved onto the back part of the lot 
where the parsonage building now stands. At the close of Dr. 
Heard's term the membership had increased to 125. He was 
succeeded by Dr. Chaffee, during whose term of three years 
the presenth Curch was built and paid for at a cost of about 
$65,000, and the membership was doubled. The parsonage build- 
ing, a double tenement, was erected later, half of which makes a 
commodious home for the pastor and his family, the other half 




INTERIOR VIEW OF HENNEPIN AVENUE 



being rented. This church has stood foremost, not only in the 
city, but in the conference, as a liberal supporter of all our Metho- 
dist work, having taken a leading part not only in City Mis- 
sions and Church Extension work, but in all our benevolent 
causes, especially giving liberally to foreign missions and to Ham- 
line University. Even if others have done according to their ability, 
it is fitting that this church should receive this meed of praise. 
The pastorate has been as follows: 1875-6, A. Hollington ; 1876-9, 
C. M. Heard; 1879-82, J. F. Chaffee; 1882-4, A. C. Williams; 
1884-7, J. L. Pitner; 1887-9, R - M - McKaig; 1889-91, O. H. Tif- 



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fany, who died in this city, October 24th 1891. After Dr. Tiffany's 
decease, F. O. Holman, who had been previously appointed assist- 
ant pastor, succeeded to the pastorate. After three years of the 
most brilliant success, Dr. Holman's health was so imperilled that 
lie was compelled to seek the benefits of a more congenial climate. 
Rev. J. Wesley Hill, pastor of Fowler Church, succeeded to the 
pulpit from May until the conference in October, when Rev. E. L. 
Watson was transferred from the Baltimore Conference and ap- 
pointed pastor. His pastorate is opening most auspiciously, and 
prophesies are heard on all sides of great success. The church is 
valued at $116,000 and the parsonage at $28,000. The member- 
ship is over 600. 




TRINITY 



TRINITY 

In 1884 F. I. Fisher was appointed to Taylor Street. The 
work was feeble then and gave little promise of future greatness. 
The succeeding pastors have been : 1885-6, B. F. Kerfoot; 1886- 
9, James Door; 1889-92,0. M. Heard; 1893, W. K. Marshall. 



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During Dr. Marshall's first year the house of worship was greatly 
enlarged and his pastorate from the first proved a great success. 
The name of the church has been changed to Trinity. The 
Epworth League of that church is flourishing, and the Junior 
League is quite phenominal, having a membership of nearly 200. 
This charge is in the northeast part of the city, and is surrounded 
by a large and growing community, and will doubtless become one 
of our most important churches. The church is valued at $6,000, 
and the membership is over 200. 
























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FOREST HEIGHTS 



FOREST HEIGHTS 

The Forest Heights M. E. Church, located at 2022 James 
avenue north, is one of the younger and most promising societies 
in the city. It origniated as a mission in the spring of 1885, the 
Rev. Mr. Campbell acting as pastor for several months. To him 
belongs the credit of establishing the work. Nathaniel McCarthy, 
of the Hennepin Avenue Church, acted as superintendent until 



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the mission became an independent chapel. C. E. Olmstead organ- 
ized the class - and was appointed leader and has continued to fill 
that office most acceptably until the present time. In the fall of 
1885, Rev, J. B. Freeman was appointed to the mission and labored 
successfully for several months. He was followed by Rev. E. 
S. Pilling, under whose administration the little band undertook to 
build a church. It was a great undertaking, but the practical 
sympathy and help of the Hennepin Avenue Church made success 
possible, and in the beginning of 1886 the present church building 
was erected. The Rev. J. B. Higgins was appointed to the charge 
in the fall of 1887. During his brief but helpful pastorate, the par- 
sonage was built on the lot adjoining the church. At the close of 
a successful 3 ear of service, he was followed by Rev. C. A. Cressy, 
appointed in 1888. In 1889 Rev. C. N. Stowers entered upon the 
duties of this pastorate. He spent two prosperous years and 
entered upon the third year of service with greatly impaired health. 
He was compelled to resign his charge in the following January. 
The Rev. Wm. Hanson was appointed to the work in February, 
1892. He was succeeded in 1894 by Brother Clemens, who is 
making an excellent start. The membership numbers 150. The 
Sunday School has about 200 pupils enrolled. An Epworth League 
numbering about 40 members, and the Junior Epworth League 
with about 80 members, are important factors in the life and work 
of the church, and they hold large promise for its future power 
and prosperity. 



WESTERN AVENUE 

In 1883 David Tice was appointed to the City Mission. Out 
of this, under his labors, grew the Western Avenue Church. He 
began his work on Western avenue in one of his own buildings, 
and as a fruit of his labor the church was organized by the Presiding 
Elder. J. F. Chaffee, under the name of Western Avenue M. E. 
Church to which Brother Tice was appointed pastor from 1884 
to 1886. During that time lie built the present structure which was 
dedicated in the fall of 1886 by J. F. Chaffee. That was work in 



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which from the beginning the pastor largely made "brick without 
straw." The church has made a good record, but it has been the 
result of a hard struggle; among other things it has been em- 
barrassed by a heavy indebtedness, but under the faithful labors of 
Rev. R. R. Atchison and backed by the indomitable will of Bishop 
Fowler and the liberal people, the whole debt has been provided 




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for. This provision was not a farce for the debt has been paid 
and the mortgage burned in the presence of a delighted audience, 
December 31st, 1893. The pastorate has been: 1883-6, David 
Tice; 1886-9, J. W. Martin; 1889-91, R. M. Carter; 1 891-2, J. J. 
Crist; 1892-3, R. R. Atchison. The present pastor is Thomas Mc- 
Clary. The church is valued at $10,000. The membership is 
about 225. 

TWENTY-FOURTH STREET 

In 1883 David Morgan was appointed to Twenty-fourth 
Street and Taylor Street, during which year a house of worship 



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was built at Taylor street and dedicated by Bishops Foss and War- 
ren. After that year brother Morgan was pastor at the Twenty- 
fourth Street until the fall of 1886, when he was succeeded by R. 
R. Atchison, who held the charge for one year. The other pastors 
have been: 1887-9. ^* J- ^ an Fossen; 1889-91, J. C. Gullet; 189 1- 
3, A. F. Thompson. 

This church has not altogether fulfilled its early promise. 
This is in part, at least, owing to the fact that the population about 




TWENTY-FOURTH STREET 



it has become mostly foreign. But this ought not to prevent its 
success, and must not. The church is not large nor elegant, but it 
is comfortable: far better than the beginnings of many of our 
stronger churches, and the parsonage is comfortable though small. 
The debt on it has been removed through the willingness of the 
people, the persistence of the pastor and the helpfulness of Presid- 
ing Elder Stafford and Bishop Fowler. The church should take 
courage and make for itself a name. It has a membership of 
115, with property valued at $4,000. 



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BROADWAY 

In 1882 Broadway appears in the list of conference appoint- 
ments with J. A. Wright, pastor. During the year previous, under 
the pastorate of Rev. R. Forbes at First Church, and through his 
determined lead, a chapel was reclaimed from others not rightfully 
in possession, as he believed, and moved onto the lot where it now 
stands, on Broadway. Its history has been one of severe struggle 
from the first and the end is not yet. But it is a little Methodist 




BROADWAY 



Church in the right place and success will surety come. About 
two years ago, under the pastorate of J. E. Henderson, it enlarged 
its house of worship, and now has an inviting, commodious 
church building. The following have been the pastors: 1882-6, 
J. A. Wright; 1886-9, C. B. Brecount; 1889-90, James Castles; 
1890-1, R. A. Sadlier; 1891-2, J. E. Henderson; 1892-3, W. L. 
Langvell; 1893, J. A. Wright, who has inspired the church with 
larger faith andQheroism and greatly increased the membership 
and congregation. 



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FOSS 

In 187 1-2 Thos. McClary had charge of Seventh Street and 
North Mission. During the year a little house of worship was 
built on Third avenue north near Washington avenue, and was 
called the Washington Avenue Church. Here, the little society 
worked and worshipped with varying success, until the pastorate of 
J. R. Berry, which extended from 1880 to 1882, during which time 
the Foss Church was built and dedicated. J. B. Hingeley is the 




FOSS 

present pastor. The church has been very much improved during 
the year at a cost of $1200; value of the property, $12,000; mem- 
bership, about 200 The pastorate has been as follows: 187 1-2, 
Thos. McClary; 1872-4, John Stafford; 1874-5, J. T. Latton; 
1875-8, L. Hall; 1878-80, N. M. Learned; 1880-2, J. R. Berry; 
1882-3, H. J. Crist; 1883-5, J- M - Bul1 ^ 1885-8, F. O. Hol- 
man; 1888-9, S. B. Warner; 1889-90, D. R. Gray; 1890-3, B. 
Longley; 1893-4, J. B. Hingeley. 



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FRANKLIN AVENUE 

In 1 87 1 a little Church called Hobart Chapel was built on a 
leased lot. It was moved under the pastorate of N. M. Learned 
the same year, to the corner of Franklin avenue and Fifth avenue 
south, where the Franklin Avenue Church now stands. But 
Franklin Avenue first appears in the list of appointments as a part 
of the Seventh Street charge in 1876, J. W. Martin, pastor. In 
1877, however, it appears as a distinct charge, to be supplied bv 
C. Snyder. The Sunday school was organized in 1871 bv Hon. 




FRANKLIN AVENUE 



J. T. Wyman. The present church edifice was built in 1881, 
under the pastorate of N. M. Learned, Joseph Dean, since deceased, 
having been a liberal contributor to the building fund. During 
the past few years it has secured and paid for an exceedingly 
eligible site for a new church on the corner of Portland avenue 
and Twenty-second street. It has had a fairly prosperous career, 
is in the midst of one of the finest communities in the city, and 
should, and doubtless will, have a great future. Its pastorate has 



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been: 1877-8, C. Snyder, supply ; 1878-80. John Pemberton; 1880- 
2, N. M. Learned; 1882-5, C. A. Van Anda; 1885-6, F. G. Wag- 
ner; 1886-8, N. W.Jordan; 1888-9, C - N - Stowers; 1889-3, R. 
N. McKaig; 1893, F. D. Newhouse; 1894, Frank Doran. Its 
church property is valued at $25,000 and the membership stands 
at about 300. This church only needs to " go forward " and build 
a house of worship that shall be in character with that part of the 
city, in order to make sure for itself a great destiny. 




THIRTEENTH AVENUE 

THIRTEENTH AVENUE 



The Seventh Street Methodist Church, now Thirteeth avenue, 
was organized by J. F. Chaffee in 1870-1 while he was in charge 
of the City Mission. A house of worship was erected at a cost of 
about $7,000, on Seventh street and Twelfth avenue south, and was 
dedicated July, 187 1, free of debt. This church is now owned and 
occupied by the Swedish Methodists. During the pastorate of J. 
B. Starkey, 1882-5, the church, under the Presiding Eldership of 



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J. F. Chaffee, was organized and incorporated as the Thirteenth 
Avenue Church and the present house of worship was dedicated 
free of debt by Bishop C. B. Foss. The building of these two 
churches, the Seventh Street and Thirteeth Avenue, was made 
possible by the great liberality of T. A. and H. G. Harrison, and 
their sister, Mrs. A. H. Goheen. The present church property is 
valued at $13,000, and the membership is about three hundred. 
The present pastor is F. M. Rule, under whose earnest pastorate 
the church is in a flourishing condition. The following pastors 
have served this church : 1870-1, J. F. Chaffee; 1871-4, Thomas 
McClary; 1874-7, J. W. Martin; 1877-8, J. R. Akers; 1878-80, J. 
R. Creighton; 1880-2, W. W. Satterlee; 1882-5, J. B. Starkey; 
1885-8, W. K. Marshall; 1888-91, Thos. McClary; 1891-3, J. B. 
Hingeley; 1893-4, F. M. Rule. 

PARK AVENUE 

During the summer of 1893, inspired by Dr. Stafford and 
Bishop Fowler, the City Mission and Church Extension authorities 
determined to inaugurate a new church enterprise, which they 
finally did by the purchase of two lots on the corner of Park avenue 
and Thirty-fourth street which is an exceedingly eligible site, in 
the midst of a fine, large and almost churchless community. The 
lots cost $3,000 and only $150 was paid on them because of the 
hard times. The chapel was also built in the same way; namely, 
on credit. It was dedicated, however, free of debt, November 5th, 
by Bishop Fowler; Bishop Warren preaching, and Dr. Chaffee 
begging. Since then, taxes, accrued interest and the balance of 
the first thousand dollars on the lots have been paid. It has been 
a hard pull, with the pull still on because a small part of this has 
been advanced by the treasurer of the Cit}^ Missionary and 
Church Extension Society. The amount advanced, will doubtless 
soon be paid by the churches whose collections have not been 
taken. T. W. Stout is the young and vigorous pastor of this 
promising church. Already it has a membership of something 
more than 50, and the time is not far distant when the Park 
Avenue Church will stand among the foremost churches of Min- 
neapolis Methodism. 



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CAMDEN PLACE 

In 1886 the North Church, Lake street and Bloominoton 
Avenue, all appear in the list of appointments for the first time, but 
the work at the North Church, which is now called Camden Place, 
is much older than that. It was formerly called Shingle Creek 
appointment, and was for several } T ears the "trailer " on the 
Brooklyn Center Charge. It has a prosperous membership, a neat 




CAMDEN PLACE 



brick church, a comfortable parsonage, and about all the conditions 
necessary to success. The pastorate of Geo. R. Hair has been 
signalized by unusual prosperity. Under his earnest preaching, a 
wide-spread revival occurred last spring and the membership was 
greatly increased and strengthened. Its pastorate has been : 1886- 
7, H. J. VanFossen; 1887-9, R - R - Atchison: 1889-90, J. W. 
Martin; 1890-5, H. W. Knowles; 1893, Geo. R. Hair: 1894, C. 
F. Sharpe. The church is valued at $4000; parsonage, $1 200: 
membership, above 100. 



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LAKE STREET 

Lake Street Church is located at one of the most important 
points in the city. For some time before its organization, the Rev. 
David Tice had discovered the necessity and opportunity for its 
existence, and with characteristic zeal and determination, he con- 
tinued to work until the new .organization and church location were 
effected. The present church property was purchased during ihe 




LAKE STREET 



pastorate of D. H. Higgins, which began in 1886. It was pur- 
chased by Joseph Dean. The purchase was made on credit, and 
the price, though thought to be reasonable at the time, proved later 
to be large. It handicapped the society for several years with an 
almost crushing burden, but through the persevering efforts of the 
pastor, H. J. Van Fossen, the liberality of the members of the 
church, and the helping hands of many sympathizing friends on the 
outside, the debt has been wholly provided for and despite a little 



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shrinkage will be fully paid. The church has hardly grown as 
rapidly as was at first hoped, but this has largely been because 
the early promise of growth in that part of the city has not been 
up to expectation. The time is near at hand, however, when the 
population of that community will greatly increase. Then the 
mission of Lake Street Church will be fully realized. The pastor- 
ate has been as follows: 1886-8, D. J. Higgins; 1888-91, T. F. 
Allen; 1891-2, J. W. Davids; 1892-3, H. J. VanFossen. The 
church is valued at $7000; membership, 120. 

MINNEHAHA 

Work was begun at Minnehaha by C. H. Brace in 1889, 
whose pastorate lasted to 1891. The church had been built, 
however, under the directions of the Presiding Elder John Stafford 
and Brother Brace as pastor, prior to the fall of 1889, and appears 
in the minutes of the Conference as having cost $4000. Ours is 
the only church at Minnehaha, and when business revives again, 
and people begin to push out to the suburbs, it will have a great 
field of usefulness. The membership is small but plucky and needs 
the sympathy and help of the larger churches in the city. In 
addition to Brother Brace, the pastors have been: 1891-2, E. N. 
Nicholson; 1892-3, H. L. St. Clair. Value of church property, 
$4500; membership, 15. 

ST. LOUIS PARK 

St. Louis Park is not in the corporate limits of Minneapolis, 
but is generally regarded as a part of the city and so the name 
appears in the minutes in the list of city appointments. Our work 
was inaugurated here by David Tice, under whose labors, supple- 
mented by those of Dr. Stafford, then Presiding Elder, the present 
house of worship was built at a cost of about $4000. The depres- 
sion last fall made quite a change in the outlook, but the future of 
that community is assured, as is also that of the church. 

In 1892 S. F. Kerfoot was appointed to succeed Brother 
Tice. The church property is valued at $5,000, and the member- 
ship is about 40. 



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BLOOMINGTON AVENUE 

The Bloomington Society was organized by J. F. Chaffee and 
the entire work of soliciting and collecting the money for the build- 
ing was done by him. The church was dedicated during the sum- 
mer of 1886. J. L. Pitner preached the sermon. During the 
pastorate of J. G. Teter, a comfortable parsonage was built, leaving, 




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however, the too frequent legacy of debt; but under the wise 
administration of the present pastor, Elijah Haley, the debt is being 
provided for. The community about' this church is growing, the 
condition of the church is healthful, and its prospects encouraging. 
Its pastoral line is a short one: 1886-7, George West; 1887-90, J. 
G. Teter; 1890-4, Elijah Haley, who is doing a good work. The 
church is valued at $4000; parsonage, $1600; present member- 
ship, 100. 



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FOWLER 

In the Conference minutes of 1892, appears in the list of city 
appointments, "Dupont Avenue, David Tice." In 1893 Dupont 
Avenue gives place to Fowler Church, David Tice appointed 
pastor. Its location is both sightly and central and in the midst of 
the largest territory unoccupied by the Methodist Church in Minne- 
apolis and surrounded by a community which for wealth and in- 
telligence is surpassed by none in the city. It is the high ground 
between the business section and the lakes. People not anchored 
in other parts of the city will be likely to live in this region as soon 
as circumstances will permit. It will be a family section. God 
pays especial attention to families. He founded his church in the 
family. He uses the family as the unit of moral power. Its 
sanctity is hedged about with all the power of His Divinity. The 
family is the fort in which He entrenches Himself in the race. 
From this stronghold He goes down for the rescue of the vva} 7 - 
ward and for the conquest of the world. As soon as he rescues 
the first He places the desolate in families and as rapidly as He 
conquers the latter He hallows and blesses it by the benign pres- 
ence of His Church. In this generation Fowler Church will be a 
Family Church. In the later generations it will be crowded by 
marts of trade and become an Institutional Church. 

The demand for this church is emphasized by the fact that the 
field is open. People feel that they ought to have church 
privileges within walking distance. Some favorite preacher or 
old social ties may draw them to greater distances, but as a rule 
they do not long continue to attend churches so faraway that their 
children cannot walk to Sunday School and Young Peoples' meet- 
ings. Half a mile is about as far as they are likely to walk and send 
their little ones. This makes it expedient for a great denomination 
that feels its responsibilities for the religious culture of the people of 
the city to provide suitable places of worship within at least one 
mile from each other. The city, in its business experience, makes 
such or better provision for the school accommodation of its 
children. Wherever a large public school is planted, there is 
proof that not far away a church may find a good site. The noble 



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school edifice near the Fowler Church answers the question o 
need. Methodism is called of God to care for all classes. She 
can take up in her great arms all sections of society. She has 
made a glorious record by her care for the poor. She has long 




FOWLER 



felt that the church that preaches to the most poor of this genera- 
tion will preach to the most rich of the next. Making her people 
prosperous she has no right to abandon them as soon as her^lessons 
in virtue, in good habits, in economy, in industry, have brought 
forth their legitimate fruit of prosperity. She must minister to all 



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classes. She must be present on Lowry Hill with appropriate and 
efficient agencies for the shepherding of that growing and import- 
ant community. This and similar considerations induced the 
authorities of the Methodist Church to buy the very desirable lots 
on the corner of Franklin and Dupont avenues. 

In the early spring of 1894. Rev. J. Wesley Hill, D. D., was 
transferred from Helena. Montana, and undertook this work. 




CHAPEL OF FOWLER] 



There was no society, no membership, no money, no church edifice, 
no parsonage, only a lot unpaid for and a Board of Trustees deeply 
engaged elsewhere, but determined to erect a suitable building. 
The accompanying cuts represent the church as it will be when 
completed and the chapel which is now under process of erection. 
This building on Dupont avenue is rapidly advancing and will 
be occupied not long after these lines are printed. It will seat 
1140 people and has all the best and most elegant appointments 



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for efficient work, including parlors, Epworth, Young People's, 
social, dining, serving and toilet-rooms. It is not expected to in- 
volve this enterprise in serious financial em harassment at any time. 
It is hoped to reach the auditorium in the not remote future. But 
with elegant appointments, perhaps the best west of Pittsburgh for 
a large congregation, the Society can afford not to hazzard the 
enterprise by haste, or make it less than the best by inattention. 

The name Fowler Church was given to it by the Board of 
Trustees out of respect for the resident Bishop, C. H. Fowler, 
and it has been retained in spite of his most earnest request, as he 
felt embarrassed in working for the enterprise by its name. 

The purpose of the Trustees and friends of this church is to 
produce a church that will glorify God, help forward his kingdom 
among men, honor the great denomination whose appliances it 
augments and commend itself to the judgment and taste of the 
people in the midst of whom it is planted. 

In spirit and name it is to be a Methodist Church, which means 
that it is to be the best possible for its environment and work. Its 
catholicity will offer a home to all who seek communion with God. 
In the language of the first great Methodist— "Whom God accepts 
we need not reject." It is confidently expected that at the altars 
of this church multitudes will find pardon and from its service many 
will graduate into heaven. 

EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE 

In i88i the coming of Bishop Foss as Resident Bishop of 
Minneapolis was signalized by the purchase of an Episcopal resi- 
dence. Mrs. A. H. Goheen offered her residence and beautiful 
grounds on Nicollet avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets on 
such favorable terms that the property was purchased for about 
$13,000, a considerable portion of which she gave herself. It is 
true to history to say that the movement to secure an Episcopal 
residence was inaugurated by J. F. Chaffee and the money made 
and provided for, was solicited by him and, of which, except about 
$1,000, was contributed by the members of the Hennepin A venue 
Church. 



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ASBURY HOSPITAL AND REBECCA DEACONESS 

HOME 

In 1887 the first experiment was made in this state in our de- 
nomination with the deaconess movement by the organization of 
the Northwestern Deaconess Home, at No. 2745 Second avenue 
south. Good work was done here, but after a short existence, 
some complications arose and the project was abandoned. 




ASBURY HOSPITAL AND REBECCA DEACONESS HOME 



On the 17th da}' of August, 1891, the Rebecca M. Harrison 
Deconess Home was organized in memory of the wife of T. A. 
Harrison and was largely supported by the donations of Mrs. Sarah 
H. Knight. As many as six deaconesses were connected with the 
Home at a time, and were sent to all parts of Minneapolis, usually 
under the auspices of some Methodist church, to visit and care for 
the sick and poor, and spiritually comfort and advise with all classes 
in need. 



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Its work has proved a great blessing to many homes as well 
as to a multitude of the homeless. 

Its Board of Managers consists of Sarah H. Knight, Anna H. 
Goheen, Rev. J. F. Chaffee, S. C. Robinson, Caroline E. Thorpe, 
Mary H. Robinson, J. Force, Sarah F. Force, John Stafford, 
Harriet R. Stafford and H. N. Farnam. 

The Home was merged into the corporation known as Asbury 
Hospital and Rebecca Deaconess Home, which was organized on 




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the 26th day of April, 1893, in memory of Thomas Asbury Hari- 
son and wife. Its general purposes are to "establish, maintain, and 
conduct hospitals and deaconess homes in Minnesota." All persons, 
without regard to religious belief or nationality, can be treated 
surgically or medically and cared for in the hospital, excepting 
such persons as are suffering from an infectious or contagious 
disease; and all properly educated physicians, duly licensed by the 
state, may treat their patients therein. The Hospital has a large 
staff of able physicians and surgeons who treat all charity patients 
free of charge. 



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As to the Home, it gives necessary instruction, maintenance 
and assistence to women engaged in deaconess work or preparing 
therefor and, as far as practicable, develops and maintains them in 
the various forms of Christian work. Their consecration is to 
"minister to the poor, visit the sick, pray with the dying, care for 
the orphan, seek the wanderer, comfort the sorrowing, and save 
the sinning." Truly this is "pure religion and undefiled," and yet 
how many are giving it the warm support, which its merits 
demand? 



ASBURY HOSPITAL AMBULANCE 

Under the law passed by the Legislature in 1893, the cor- 
poration closely resembles Hamline University. There is no stock 
issued or to be issued. A carefully selected board of persons per- 
petuates itself, in part; but three classes of three each are selected 
in alternation b}^ the Minnesota Annual Conference. The resident 
Bishop is ex-officio a member of the Board. 

The present hospital building and site were purchased by 
Mrs. Sarah H. Knight and donated to the corporation. Its value 
is estimated at $30,000. 

Its support is derived from pay patients, contributions from 
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money. For the year ending August 31, 1893, the sum of 
$3,700 in money was contributed by 155 Methodist churches, 
Sunday schools, Leagues and Endeavor societies in Minnesota. 

From February 16, 1893 to August 31, 1893, (date of pub- 
lished report) 1148 persons were treated in the Free Dispensary. 

In its report there were represented eighteen nationalites, 
twelve creeds and sixty-three occupations. They came from 
eighty-one points in Minnesota; sixteen in Wisconsin; ten in North 
Dakota; eight in South Dakota; two each in Illinois, Iowa and 
Montanna; and one each in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. 

In the annual statement published September 1, 1894, the 
superintendent's report closes as follows: 

"What We Want 

"1. To pay off our debt of nearly $12,000. The property is 
estimated to be worth $35,000. i 

"2. More room — in the hospital for patients; in the Free Dis- 
pensary, for the better handling of that branch; in the Deaconess 
Home, to meet the enlarged growth of that work; in fact, for ^11 
departments, for we are crowded to the utmost capacity, with as 
many as four persons of the working force sleeping in a fair sized 
room. This means one or more new buildings. With more rooms 
for pay patients, and more wards, the income would be correspond- 
ingly increased, and without materially increasing the running 
expenses. 

"Can this be done? There is one way in which this debt can 
be paid and the necessary buildings erected this year, that is, by 
each of the 30,000 members of Minnesota Methodism sending 
the Treasurer $1.00." This plan should receive a hearty response 
from every church in the conference." 

RESIDENT BISHOPS 

Minneapolis Methodism has been favored with an Episcopacy 
as genuine and genuinely apostolic as the church has ever had. 
Bishop Merrill came to St. Paul in 1872 and exercised a careful 
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Bishop in 1880 and at once chose Minneapolis as his place of resi- 
dence. Eloquent in the pulpit and on the platform and catho- 
lic in his feeling toward other churches, he was highly ap- 
preciated. In 1888 Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald, recently elected, 
came in his place. He is a man of solid parts, and endeared him- 
self to many people during his residence of four years in this city. 
The affliction which came upon his son Ray in the partial loss of 
sight, while here, created profound sympathy. 

In 1892 came Bishop Charles H. Fowler, being still present 
with us. It takes him but a short time to leap into the saddle, and 
in the presence of a great emergency he can command his forces 
in a grand charge, or change front without the flutter of a pulse. 
Scholarly, alert, bold and persistent, he is invaluable whether 
in the lead or behind pushing. With but few, if any, equals in the 
American pulpit, and no superiors on the platform, he is the pride 
of our local Methodism and the delight of our citizens without re- 
spect to creed or party. 

The above is but an outline of the history of Minneapolis 
Methodism, hastily written, not wholly accurate perhaps, in some 
respects, but the best that could be done under all the circum- 
stances. Not including the German, Swedish and Norwegian de- 
partments of our work, we have nineteen churches, valued at $5 20,- 
900; four parsonages, valued at $33,200, and a membership of about 
4000, including probationers, with nearly 4000 members of our Sun- 
day Schools. If we add to this our Episcopal residence, our Method- 
ist Hospital and Deaconess Home work, the large amounts given to 
Hamline University, besides all our contributions to the benevolent 
work of the church, we may well exclaim, "Behold, what hath God 
wrought." We may not indeed have whereof to glory, but the 
results are not contemptible, and will not be surpassed in the next 
thirty-seven years except by strenuous and consecrated effort. 



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St. Paul Methodism 

It is a question of very little importance whether First Church, 
so called, is really entitled to that name, or whether the title more 
properly belongs to what is now known as Central Park Church 
Yet it has been discussed with no little feeling. 

The first building erected by the St. Paul Methodists for 
church purposes was a small frame structure on Jackson street, 
in 1847-8, but which was never finished and was finally relin- 
quished to the owner of the ground on which it stood. In 
1 84 9 a small brick church w r as erected on Market street, fronting 
on what is now known as Rice's Park. This church was soon out- 
grown, and in 1856 a much larger house was finished, on the cor- 
ner of Ninth and Jackson streets. The entire membership united 
in this enterprise, and it is claimed that the understanding was, 
that when the house was ready for occupancy the member- 
ship was to move into it, and leave the Market street house un- 
occupied. 

For some reason, not generally understood, when the time for 
removal came a few families refused to leave the old church. A 
sharp controversy followed. The bell was taken away and the 
Sunday school library, but the few kept possession of the house. 
At the ensuing session of the Conference, August 7th, 1856, they 
were recognized as an independent charge under the name "St. 
Paul West," John Penman, pastor. The Jackson Street Church 
was set down as "St. Paul East," E.J. Kinney, pastor. The latter 
was in St. Paul District, D. Brooks, Presiding Elder; the for- 
mer in Minnesota District, John Kerns, Presiding Elder. 

In 1857 the two churches were by special arrangement united 
in one pastorate; Cyrus Brooks, a transfer from the Cincinnati con- 
ference, had charge assisted by a talented young man from Balti- 



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more Conference, Wm. S. Edwards. At the conference in the 
spring of 1858 the churches were separated and made independent 
charges; with C. Brooks at Jackson Street, and W. S. Edwards at 
Market Street. This name w r as retained by the latter church until 
1873 when it removed to its present location and assumed the name 
of 

FIRST CHURCH. 

Jackson Street Church has also changed its location and its 
name and now both churches claim to be the mother of Methodism 
in St. Paul. But as we know not how else to speak of them, it 
must not be considered an offense, when, in this sketch, we call 
them by the names which they now bear. 

When in April, 1858, the two churches were made independent 
charges the second time. Market Street Church, as it was then 
called, numbered about 40 members. Its growth was slow, yet 
eight years later the number had about doubled. Then, in con- 
sequence of deaths and removals, there was a falling off; so that in 
1870 there were reported but 44 members. After that there was 
a pretty steady growth, until the exodus under Dr. Smith, in the 
beginning of 1888. 

When in 1873 the church took possession of its new home, 
under its new name, it found itself burdened with rather a formid- 
able debt; and this, with the lamented death of Hon. John Nicols, 
on the 30th of July of that year, a leader and liberal contributor in 
every church enterprise, caused a feeling of discouragement very 
unfavorable to progress. In the summer of 1878 Bishop Foster 
visited St. Paul, and under the inspii ation of his stirring words, re- 
sponsible parties assumed the indebtedness and relieved the cor- 
poration. 

In 1879 Dr. Samuel G. Smith was transferred from Iowa and 
stationed at First Church. Under his ministry the church pros- 
pered and at the close of his three years term of service, he was 
appointed Presiding Elder of the St. Paul District. In 1882 Emory 
Miller, D. D., another transfer from Iowa, succeeded Dr. Smith at 
First Church. At the end of two years he returned to Iowa, leav- 
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In the meantime Dr. Smith's health had proved insufficient for 
the Presiding Eldership: he had given up his district, had visited 
Europe, and returned in time to succeed Dr. Miller at First 
Church. As he had left that charge only two years before, after a 
three years' pastorate, there was a Disciplinary barrier in the way 
of his appointment. The charge was left to be supplied. Dr. 
Smith received a merely nominal appointment to a little ephemeral 




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mission across the river, and served as the supply for First Church. 
He was appointed to the charge next year, 1885. and reappointed 
in 1S86 and 1887. 

He had long been dissatisfied with the "time limit*' in our 
itineracy, bv which, as it was then, a preacher was not allowed to 
serve "the same appointment more than three years in six.'' As 
he was very outspoken on the subject, he had a number of 
sympathizers among the more wealthy members of his congrega- 
tion. Besides, he had other reasons which prompted him to take 



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the step which resulted in the organization of "The People's 
Church." Arrangements were all completed — he had notified the 
resident Bishop of his intentions, and on Sabbath, the first day of 
January, 1888, he preached for the last time as a minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. This was not "a happy new year" 
for First Church, for its members were strongly attached to Dr. 
Smith and the final severance of such ties could not be otherwise 
than painful. 

The very next Sabbath after the pulpit was vacated it was 
most satisfactorily supplied. Dr. F. O. Holman was taken from 
Foss Church, Minneapolis and placed in charge of First Church, 
St. Paul. Thus there was no break in pulpit ministration or pas- 
toral oversight. 

A number of excellent members, and the larger share of the 
wealth of the church went with Dr. Smith. It can be no reflection 
upon any others to say, that among those who left, the loss of none 
was quite so deeply felt as that of the family of the late Hon. John 
Nicols. He in his lifetime was a loyal Methodist, and with his 
excellent wife had stood firmty by First Church through its most 
trying vicissitudes. Indeed, there were times when but for their 
support, moral and financial, it must have proved a failure. 

But all were missed and mourned, and though the number 
who left was not so great as had been expected, yet "the departure 
of these was very depressing. One cannot but admire the quiet 
and dignified determination with which those who remained took 
up the added burden which they were thus called to bear. There 
was no bluster, no sign of faintheartedness; but under the new 
leadership things moved right on, and so they have continued. 

Dr. Holman was appointed to the charge the following year, 
but before its close was compelled, by failing health, to give it up, 
much to the regret of his people. Rev. J. B. Starkey was employed 
to fill out the year. 

In 1889 Dr. Coultas was transferred to this conference and 
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He was followed by the present pastor, C. B. Wilcox. D. D., 
now in the fifth year of his pastorate. He is modest and unassum- 
ing, but does not feel called upon to apologize for his position. His 
ministry has been successful from the first; and now, at the begin- 
ning of his fifth year, the church has a membership of over 300. 
The church is at peace, is in good working condition, and more 
than satisfied with its present pastor, whose term of service must 
close at the end of this Conference year. 

CENTRAL PARK 

As Central Park Church and First Church have a common 
history until their separation and recognition as Jackson Street 
Church and Market Street Church, and as that history is included 
in the sketch of First Church, it need not be repeated here. 

After the separation of the Jackson and Market Street Churches 
at the conference in 1858, Rev. Cyrus Brooks remained in the 
pastorate of Jackson Street. W. S. Edwards was appointed pastor 
of Market Street Church. Rev. J. F. Chaffee succeeded him and 
continued two years. After him the following pastors served in 
succession : J. S. Peregrim, 1861; B. F. CrRry, 1862. In the latter 
part of the year he was appointed army chaplain and Edward 
Eggieston took his place as pastor until May, 1863, when on 
account of failing health, he resigned and A. J. Nelson supplied the 
remainder of the year. At the Conference of 1863, B. F. Crary, 
having returned from the army, was re-appointed and served until 
May following when he was elected editor of the Central Christian 
Advocate and J. N. Martin supplied until the Conference of 1864, 
when Cyrus Brooks was returned to Jackson Street. From 1865 
to 1868 Daniel Cobb was pastor: 1868-9, E. S. Gillette; 1869-72, 
William McKinley; 1872-4, J. W. McGregor; 1874-6, Charles 
Griswold; 1876-7," O. Williams ; 1877-8, John Stafford; 1878-9, J. 
F. Chaffee; 1879-81, S. M. Davis; 188 1-4, W. K. Marshall; 1884- 
7, Robert Forbes; 1887-91, J. E. Smith, the last half year supplied 
by W. W. Satterlee; 189 1-4, Frank Doran. William McKinley is 
now pastor, having been appointed at the Duluth Conference, 
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There was a debt of $5,000 on Jackson Street Church 
when it was opened in 1857 and this, being followed by the finan- 
cial crash of that year, continued to accumulate until in i860 it 
amounted to $9,000. That year it was reduced to $5,500 and con- 
tinued to grow for eight years more. During the pastorate of 
Daniel Cobb the debt w r as paid, the church improved and a gracious 
revival of religion enjoyed. 

In January, 1888, the congregation removed from Jackson 
Street to the new church, corner of Twelfth street and Minnesota, 
and the name changed to Central Park Church. This church, in- 
cluding lot and furnishing, cost $86,000. On it was a debt of $56- 
000 which, during the past year, has, by sale of the old parsonage 
property on Robert street and by a donation of $6000 from the 
Church Extension Board, been reduced to $30,000. 

The number of church members at present is 338; of Sunday 
School scholars, 250, with Gen. Geo. C. Smith as Superintendent. 
The central location of this church in the capitol city of the state 
has made it an important factor in the history of Minnesota Method- 
ism. The changing character of the population around it, while it 
has hindered the numerical growth of the church, has enlarged the 
sphere of its influence by bringing to it and sending from it to every 
part of the northwest thousands of workers whose lives and labors 
will be felt for good far and wide forever. Among them are men 
and women eminent and honored in every profession and position 
in life. Some of the fathers and founders of this church were also 
among the fathers and founders of St. Paul and their names are 
imperishably associated with the history of the city as well as of 
the church. Benjamin F. Hoyt, Nathaniel McClean, Ira Bid well, 
Parker Paine, A. F. Parker, John H, Reaney, Alexander Wilson, 
C. D. Strong and Dr. John H. Murphy will long be remembered 
among the laymen whose work of faith and labor of love have 
helped to make Central Park and the city of St. Paul what they 
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CLINTON AVENUE 

The first recorded effort to establish Methodism in the section 
of the city of St. Paul now occupied by the Clinton Avenue 
Church was made by the Rev. Silas Bolles, in 1856 or 1857; but 
the flood of 1857 swept away whatever beginnings were made, 
and the field was unoccupied for some years. About the end of 
July, 1869, Robert Withey established a Sunday School; and fol- 
lowing this a meeting was held to consider the organization of a 
church, at which were present Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, 
Episcopalians and Disciples, and as the Methodists were the only 
people who could promise regular preaching without much pay it 
was decided to make the union Sunday school a Methodist school 
and to organize a Methodist Episcopal Church. The society for 
some time was connected with the "Pine Bend circuit," and at the 
Conference held in Owatonna, September, 1870, Rev. F. A. Scott 
became pastor; but he failed in health and died before the close of 
the year. The field has since then been served in order and with 
varying success by the following pastors : C. H. Savidge, G. W. 
Richardson, W. Kerr, S. F. Tuttle, H. P. Satchwell, John Stafford, 
N. M. Learned, David Tice, J. G. Teter, David Morgan, W. S. 
Mathew, A. W. Edwards, J. F. Stout, W. C. Rice, W. S. Cochrane 
and J. C. Hull. A church was built and, in September, 1873, 
dedicated by Bishop Merrill. In the conference minutes of 1875 
the name of Clinton Avenue appears for the first time. The 
church, through all its early history, occupied a hard field, but 
made a heroic struggle, and, with the great activity and inflation of 
real estate, undertook the erection of a splendid church and parson- 
age. This was done during the pastorate of Rev. J. F. Stout, the 
fine church building being erected in 1888, on the crest of the 
boom period. The cost of the building was about $50,000, and 
the parsonage is reckoned at $5000 additional. At the time of 
dedication the indebtedness was subscribed, and if the good times 
had continued all might have gone well with the society; but as 
things turned out, a great burden of debt was left, which has, until 
recently, hung over the church like the "Old Man of the Sea." 
Under its crushing weight, many have become discouraged and 
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values, there was left little hope of collecting the subscriptions and 
liquidating the debt of Clinton Avenue Church; and it was only 
by the good financial management of Pastor Rice that the society 
was prevented from going on the rocks. He, with the valuable 
help of some energetic laymen of the church, reduced the debt 
very materially during the two years of his pastorate; and a loan 
of $20,000 was secured, which for a time afforded delay of the 




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impending distress. It was hoped that times might improve, so that 
some way would appear to save the property; but instead of im- 
provement, there was continual and increased depression, so that 
as a last resort Bro. Rice appealed to his old friend, Mr. John D. 
Blake, of Minneapolis, who generously offered eighteen lots in 
Lincoln Street Supplement to Minneapolis, provided it would clear 
the Clinton Avenue Church from debt. 

Two years elapsed after the offer of the property by Brother 
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to $23,000, of course due from non-payment of interest. At 
the Conference session held in Wesley Church, Minneapolis, in 
the fall of 1893, it was currently reported that Clinton Auenue 
would have to go to the wall. No one seemed willing to 
undertake its rescue and the case was generally regarded hopeless. 
This conference passed a resolution asking the Board of Church 
Extension to grant help to both Central Park and Clinton Avenue, 
St. Paul. Few had any hope that churches which had been built 
at so great cost would receive such aid. It is well known that 
help in such exceptional cases can be' given only on recommenda- 
tion of the annual meeting of the Board of Church Extension. By 
the good favor of Providence, which thoughtless men would call a 
coincidence, the annual Board meeting was fixed for St. Paul. 

The new pastor, Rev. J. C. Hull, at once set about the rescue 
of the church property. The plans formed and the proposition 
presented w r ere entirely his own and were submitted to no one until 
presented by him before the special committee at the Church Exten- 
sion Board meeting. The special committee to which the cases of 
Central Park and of Clinton Avenue had been referred, and of 
which Bishop Fowler was chairman, recommended the granting of 
the request for Clinton Avenue; but when the proposition came 
before the Board for action, the Senior Corresponding Secretary 
neatly defeated it by moving that the request be referred to the 
Executive Board at Philadelphia, stating that the Executive Board 
had power to do that without the recommendation of the annual 
meeting. But its author, while not a member of the Board, quietly 
said: "They shall never cover up my proposition in that grave. 
They must adopt or defeat the recommendation of the special com- 
mittee to whom it was referred." With this determination he 
labored faithfully all the afternoon and evening until the time of 
the next morning's session, preparing the way for a reconsidera 
tion, which was secured by a motion of Dr Chaffee. The report 
of the special committee, recommending that the request of Clinton 
Avenue be granted, was passed with but one negative vote. The 
proposition provided for the granting of $17,000, and the accept- 
ance of the 18 lots offered by Mr. Blake, as collateral for the 
money. Rev. Mr. Hull then set about getting the mortgage re- 



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duced from $23,000 to $17,000, which he succeeded in doing, 
and in addition obtained $350 to pay the taxes which had ac- 
cumulated on the Minneapolis property during the two years in 
which it had been held for the church. With these additional 
leverages, and with most valuable assistance from Bishop Fowler, 
he continued to follow up the recommendation of relief through 
the Board of Church Extension: and after five months of anxiety 
and uncertainty, the whole matter was carried successfully through. 
The lots were deeded directly to theBoard of Church Extension and 
the mortgage purchased by the Board, with the agreement that five 
years of time should be allowed in which to dispose of the Min- 
neapolis property. The local management of the business of the 
church has been no less successfully managed by the pastor, who 
had volunteered to carrv everything until the church should be on 
a substantial footing. He has secured the release of judgments 
against the society, and so managed the current expenses that no 
new debts have been allowed to accumulate; he has also paid off 
various obligations which had for some time rested against the 
church. Clinton Avenue Church has thus been put upon a sub- 
stantial footing, under the inspiration of which the congregation is 
growing, and everv department of the church is making advance. 
The church is stillin an unfinished condition, not having the gallerv 
built in the audience room, and the steam-heating plant not yet in; 
but for the present the galleries are not needed, and the church is 
heated by three large furnaces. There are large and commodious 
engine rooms, the stairways for the galleries are completed, and 
abundant space for a arge pipe-organ, so that in time the church 
may be thoroughly equipped It has excellent basement room, in- 
cluding a well furnished kitchen, with gas cooking range. The 
ladies of the society are noted for their capability in furnishing a 
good church dinner. Clinton Avenue Church stands in the midst 
of a population of 30.000 people, and in the very nature of things 
must have a great future. 

OLIVET 

Under the direction of Dr. Robert Forbes, of Jackson Street 
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A. L. Morrison in charge, in a hall near the corner of West 
Seventh and Bay streets. The Sunday School was removed to the 
chapel on Juno street, which was dedicated October 3, 1886, at 3 
p. m., by Dr. Robert Forbes. At the first quarterly conference 
held on the premises, with S. B. Warner, Presiding Elder, in the 
chair, and B. F. Kephart pastor, it was decided that the name of 
the edifice should be "The Olivet M. E. Church." This church 
has the unique distinction of being out of debt. The property is 
valued at $3000. Growth in membership has been small as the 
surrounding population is largely foreign. A flourishing Sunday 
School, a good Epworth League, a thoroughly active Ladies' Aid 
Society and delightful harmony are branches that assure us that 
there is vitality in the vine. The following is the roll of pastors: 

B. F. Kephart, one year: Edward Gill, one year ; A.F.Thompson, 
one year; George W. Empey, one year; J. D. Deets, one year; 
and James Castles, who is now in his third year. 

ST. ANTHONY PARK 

St Anthony Park Church was organized in the summer of 
1889. C. M. Heard was the pastor at that time. Since then it has 
had a fluctuating experience. At present it has a membership of 
30, and a Sunday School with an enrollment of 80. The present 
Pastor is J. W. Fryckberg. The house of worship w r as opened for 
public service January 1, 1891. The site was purchased at a cost 
of $1500., and the building was erected at a cost of $3000. The 
property is valued at $5500, and the present indebtedness $2000. 

KING STREET 

A Sunday School was organized January 15, 1882, at the 
residence of Mr. J. A. McConkey, 404 Morton street. In the fall of 
the same year the church society w^as organized with F. O. Hol- 
man, pastor of Bates Avenue, in charge. After six months the 
work was turned over to Hamline students who filled out the re- 
mainder of the year. Besides Bro. Holman, the following is the 
roll of pastors: John Pemberton, three years; King Street having 



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Riverside as an out-appointment; David Morgan, five years; John 
W. Powell, one year; and James Castles, who is now serving his 
third year. In 1883 a chapel was erected on King Street, and 
dedicated by S. G. Smith, Presiding Elder. In 1888 the Clinton 
Avenue people donated their church edifice to the King Street 
society, and in the same year a parsonage was erected next door 
to the church. The church property which is splendidly located is 
valued at $6000 on which there is a mortgage of $950. The 
membership is 60, with a flourshing Sunday School. Every de- 
partment of the church is in a health}' condition. 

GRACE 

On September 6, 1868, Grace Church was formally organized 
by Rev. D. Cobb, pastor of Jackson Street Church. In 1869 a com- 
fortable chapel was erected. The following summer it was dedicated 
by William McKinley, pastor of Jackson Street Church. In the 
fall of 1878 it was thought best to organize the society into a 
church. The conference sent Rev. T. L. Tuttle to take charge of 
the work. He brought the people together and the church was 
known as the Third Methodist Church of JM. Paul. Afterwards 
the name was changed to Grace Church. 

In the fall of 1874 R ev - J onn Stafford was sent as pastor. It 
soon seemed necessary to build a new structure. How to accomp- 
lish this was a serious question. Mr. Stafford wrote: "For in 
addition to our own povert} T , the city, and especially our church in 
the city, was passing through the worst financial struggle it had 
encountered since 1857." The undertaking at last seemed possi- 
ble. The lot on Hopkins street was bought for $1400, $400 paid 
down and the balance in five years. The cash payment was made 
in March, 1875. The contract for building was let for $2000 and 
the church was ready for dedication June 13th. The indebted- 
ness was $1500. Bishop Merrill preached the dedication sermon 
and then presented the financial situation to the people. Finally, 
bv the generosity of the Bishop and Mr. J. H. Davidson, and also 
of friends in the First Church, the entire indebtedness was removed. 
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served the church two years and was followed by H. C. Jennings, 
who also served two years. These were years of great prosperity. 
A mission was started on Dayton Bluff, which is now the Bates 
Avenue Church. In October, 1881, Rev. C. E. Cline was ap- 
pointed pastor. In 1882 Rev. S. B. Warner was appointed. In 
1884 Dr. Stafford was returned. Rev. J. H. Dewart followed him. 
It was duriag this time that the present chapel was built. It was 




dedicated in 1886. Bishop Foss preached the sermon. The 
people were asked to pledge $8oco. The entire amount was 
promised but for some reason many of the subscriptions failed to 
materialize in cash. Rev. N. W. Jordan became pastor of the 
churchin 1888. Rev. Aaron Turner succeeded him. He was fol- 
lowed by Rev. Robert Craig. Rev. E. Pilling succeeded him. In 
1892 Rev. S. B. Warner was returned. Everything seemed 
promising, when, in the midst of his pastorate, he had an oppor- 



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tunity to go to Colorado which he accepted. In 1893 Rev. Mr. 
Handy was brought to the pastorate. He remained a few months 
and then, deciding to prepare for the medical profession, resigned 
his relation. A few weeks later Rev. Milton G. Shuman. then a 
local preacher in Helena, Montana, was appointed as the supplv. 
Under his pastorate, many embarrassed interests found well nigh 
immediate relief. At the last Quarterly Conference of- the vear he 
was unanimously invited to remain for another year and at the Con- 
ference in October, 1894, he was re-appointed. 

HAMLINE 

The tirst sermon at Hamline was preached bv Rev. C. F. 
Bradley, September 12, 1880. A class was formed and a Sundav 
School organized at once. Prof. Bradley was pastor for twoyears, 
during which time the foundation was well laid for a model church. 
Prof. G. S. Innis was appointed pastor and served for one vear. S. 
G. Gale was then made pastor and served the school for three 
years. P. Innis succeeded him to the close of the conference year. 
In t886 Rev. Wm. McKinley was appointed pastor and held this 
position until 1891 when he was made Presiding Elder. Prof. 
Innis served again as supplv for the rest of the vear. In 1891 Rev. 
W. H. Daniel was transferred from the Indiana Conference and 
stationed at Hamline. He was succeeded in 1892 by Rev. Frank 
B. Cowgill who still continues in the pastorate. 

The church has grown steadily from the beginning. The Sun- 
day School is in a prosperous condition and there are two Epworih 
Leagues with a membership aggregating 3 50 and a flourishing 
Junior League. The church has a membership, including proba- 
tioners, of more than 400. Unusual intelligence and efficiency 
characterize the church. The congregation is liberal in all its con- 
tributions to the local and connectional interests of Methodism. 

BATES AVENUE 

The Bates Avenue Church grew out of a Sunday School 
which was started in 1866. The place of meeting was an old 
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These young people were encouraged and greatly helped in their 
work by Mr. James Yandes, a wealthy man who lived on Mound 
street. In 1867 the school passed into the hands of the Y. M. C. 
A. of St Paul, which continued the supervision of it until 1875, 
when the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church bought the house and 
grounds and organized a Methodist Sunday School. 

During the year the present site was purchased. The old 
school house and grounds were then sold and the present building 
was paid for with the proceeds plus the subscription raised on dedi- 
cation day. 

In the spring of 1876 the corner stone was laid by Rev. 
Cyrus Brooks, and in the early fall the church was dedicated by 
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, without a membership or organization, the 
trustees of Grace Methodist Church presenting the house for dedi- 
cation. 

A list of members was enrolled October 24, 1882, an organiza- 
tion effected November 6, following, and the Bates Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church started on her career as a Mission 
Church, with Rev. F. O. Holman as herfirst pastor. In 1882 Bates 
Avenue and King Street were united as one charge. But such 
was the energy and push of the people of Bates Avenue and 
the zeal of their pastor, that the Presiding Elder, Dr. S. G. Smith, 
was enabled to say in his report to the Conference of 1893, "Bates 
Avenue has become a self-supporting charge." The church has 
been served by the following pastors: F. O. Holman, who took 
charge in 1882; F.I. Fisher in 1885; John Pemberton in 1886; 
Robert Forbes in 1887; J. H. Dewart in 1888: Thomas McClary 
in 1891, and William S. Cochrane in 1893. Her present member- 
ship is 176. She has now a propertv valuation of $5000 with an 
indebtedness of $860, and a fair prospect of usefulness. 

TRINITY 

Trinity M. E. Church, Merriam Park, is a smaller, but other- 
wise a facsimile, of the Forest Heights M. E. Church of Minneapo- 
lis. In the summer of 1885 Major J. A. Sabin, of old Jackson 
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St. Paul Methodism, placed $1000 in the hands of his pastor, Dr. 
Robert Forbes, saying, " Use this for the good of the church, ac- 
cordingtoyour own judgment." Dr. Forbes at once visited Merriam 
Park and consulted with O. P. Shepherdson, W. B. Martin, H. B. 
Clark, A.J. Douglas, Dr. J. H. Nichols, Geo. H. Tiffany, W. O. 
Hillman and a few others, and proposed that if $1000 could be 
raised in the Park, he would give the thousand dollars in his hands 
to the Merriam Park people to build a Methodist Episcopal Church. 




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The proposal was accepted. Dr. S. B. Warner, Presiding Elder, 
co-operated and officially organized the church, and appointed Dr. 
Forbes pastor. When the subscriptions reached $700 the pastor 
secured the remaining $300 among his personal friends in the 
cities, and in September the building was commenced. Mean- 
while services were held in Woodruff's Hall, Sunday afternoons, 
by Dr. J. H. Dewart, S. G. Smith, Robert Forbes and others. At 
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sistant pastor of Jackson Street, Dr. Forbes being pastor. Brother 
Way resided at Merriam Park, it being understood that he should 
preach there every Sunday morning and give the evenings to 
the missions under the care of Jackson Street Church— Wesley, 
Epworth and Olivet. Dr. Forbes dedicated the church in the 
following July, after a sermon by Dr. F. O. Holman. At the 
dedication subscriptions were taken to cover the entire cost of 
building. The church has had eminent pastoral service, among 
them being Revs. Stowers, Doran, Heard, McAdoo, Pilling and 
Sutton. The present pastor is Rev. John Pemberton. 

EPWORTH 

This church was organized in 1884 under the direction of 
Rev. Robert Forbes while he was pastor of the old Jackson Street 
Church. It began in a Sunday School conducted in the home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wren, 557 Rice street. The building of a 
chapel followed. It was located on Marine street one block west of 
Rice. This location proved to be unwise and the church was re- 
located at the corner of Aurora and Makubin street. Owing to 
the foreign population about it, its work is mostly of a missionary 
character. Revs. J. H. Sutton and J. C. Gullett have been among 
the successful pastors., Rev. E. L. Ferris is in charge. 

OXFORD CHURCH 

On the evening of March 29, 1887, a meeting was held at the 
residence of S. B. Johnson, and plans were adopted for the com- 
pletion of the organization of the Oxford Church. There were 
present at this meeting Rev. S. G. Smith, George N. Hillman, G. 
J. Kirkland and others. On Sunday afternoon, April 3, the Sun- 
day school was organized. In the mean time prayer meetings 
were held for several months in the Calvary Reformed Episcopal 
Church. On Thursday evening, March 26, the church was form- 
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Conference year there were 34 members. The church was dedi- 
cated by Bishop Foss. The property is valued at $10,000, and 
the present membership is about 60. This church has experienced 
many reverses, but the membership is courageous, and under the 
pastorate of Brother Jamison the skies are brightening. Much 
credit is due George N. Hillman, whose energy, loyalty and 
princely giving, have preserved the church in the presence of great 
peril. 




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HAMLINE UNIVERSITY 

In January 1854, a Methodist district clergyman of Wisconsin, 
presented to Hon. W. P. Murray, then a member of the Minnesota 
Territorial Legislature, a draft of a bill to incorporate the Minne- 
sota Seminary, an institution to be under the control of the Wiscon- 
sin Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The bill was 
handed over to Gen. Isaac Van Etten, who introduced it into the 
Territorial Council. It was referred to a committee of which 
Mr. Murray was chairman, which agreed to a bill incorporating a 
university to be located "on the Mississippi river between St. Paul 
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institution should be "Hamline," in honor of Bishop Hamline. 
The committee agreed upon the name "Hamline University of 
Minnesota," which is the incorporate name. On the fourth day of 
March, 1854, the bill passed both houses, and was approved by the 
Governor, W. A. Gorman, on the third of April. At the head of 
the list of incorporators, many of whom are well known in Minne- 
sota pioneer life, is Alexander Ramsey. On the following sixteenth 
of May, the Trustees of Hamline University met in the "Methodist 
Church of St Paul." 

The work was carried rapidly on. Red Wing offered the 
best inducements in the way of land, etc., and the university was 
located there. Bishop Hamline donated real estate in New York 
and Chicago. The New York property, which to-day is worth 
$500,000, was immediately put upon the market and sold for 
$6000. The preparatory department was opened November 
16th, 1854, under the leadership of Rev. Jabez Brooks. Dr. 
Brooks resigned his position in 1857 on account of failing health, 
and the presidency was taken by Rev. B. F. Crary, D. D. He 
resigned in 1861 to take the position of Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, and Dr. Brooks was elected president, the course hav- 
in the meantime been changed to a collegiate grade. 

The University continued in successful operation until 1869, 
furnishing a place for the higher education of the young men and 
women of the northwest. Over 2000 students were enrolled dur- 
ing that time. But the financial condition of the institution had 
been growing worse, owing to the financial panic of the years 
following 1857, and in 1869 the work of the school was suspended 
and the property in Red Wing sold to pay the debts. A change 
of location had been decided upon, which caused a delay of two 
years. The board of trustees had scarcely commenced the new 
building in St. Paul, when the crisis of 1873 greatly crippled their 
efforts, and finally caused operations to be entirely suspended. 

At the Rochester Conference in 1878 it was decided to renew 
the work, and Rev. John Stafford was appointed agent. By his 
indefatigable labors the new building was completed and ready for 
use, September 22, 1880, when, after eleven gloomy years, the 
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versity were again thrown open to the students of the Northwest 
under the presidency of Dr. John. 

During the first year at Hamline there were 113 students 
enrolled. The attendance has increased with each succeeding year, 
until the total enrollment is now about 2,500, with a yearly aver- 
age of 300. 

The building first erected was destroyed by fire in 1883. The 
work of rebuilding was begun at once, and on the thirtieth of Janu- 
ary, 1884, the new university hall, a more commodious and beauti- 
ful building than its predecessor, was dedicated. This was the 
first year of Dr. Bridgeman's administration. The school has had a 
period of marked prosperity during the last few years. The 
courses of study have been broadened from time to time, until 
they now include all the higher studies found in the best colleges 
of the country. 



In all my poor historical investigations it has been, and always is, one of the 
most primary wants to procure a bodily likeness of the personage inquired after; 
a good portrait, if such exists; failing that, even an indifferent, if sincere one. In 
short, any representation, made by a faithful human creature, of that face and 
figure which he saw with his eyes, and which I can never see with mine, is now 
valuable to me, and much better than none at all. This, which is my own deep 
experience, I believe to be, in a deeper or less deep degree, the universal one; and 
that every student and reader of history, who strives earnestly to conceive for 
himself what manner of fact and man this or the other vague historical name can 
have been, will, as the first and directest indication of all, search eagerly for a 
portrait, for all the reasonable portraits there are; and never rest till he have 
made out, if possible, what the man's natural face was like. Often I have found 
a portrait superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written "Biographies " as 
biographies are wiitten; or rather, let me say, I have found that the portrait 
was as a small lighted candle by which the biographies could tor the first time be 
read, and some human interpretation be made of them. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



Biographical Department 




BISHOP C. H. FOWLER 



Biographies 



BISHOP C. H. FOWLER, D. D., LL. D. 

Charles Henry Fowler, Resident Bishop in Minneapolis, was 
born in Burford, Ontario, Canada, August n, 1837. His father, 
Horatio Fowler, was born in Troy, N. Y., of English-Scotch ances- 
try, traceable to an old chief of the eighth century. His mother, 
Harriet Ryan, was born in Vermont, daughter of Henry Ryan, a 
man of great intellectual powers and phenomenal physical strength, 
who for thirty years was Presiding Elder and planted Methodism 
in Vermont and in the wilds of Canada. He married a Miss Pat- 
terson, a cousin of Noah Webster. Elder Ryan enjoyed the friend- 
ship of Ethan Allen, who, in spite of his skepticism, believed in 
this heroic itinerant. Ryan mortgaged his farm for all it w r ould 
carry, and with the money built the first Methodist church in 
Toronto. 

Young Fowler, having the metal ofhisgr and father, made his 
way with little aid through both college and a theological school, liv- 
ing part of the time on but a few cents a week, walking across the 
country carrying his valise on his back to save stage fare, and, dur- 
ing the summer vacations, working as a farm hand. He wrote 
speeches and orations for some of the wealthy young men who 
were willing to win distinction in such a way. One Fourth of July 
oration paid his bills for a year. During the vacations in his theo- 
logical course he taught school. He was twice graduated in the 
same suit of clothes. At the end of eight years hard study, he was 
but thirteen dollars in debt. 

He was an accomplished swimmer, and, while a student at the 
Garrett Biblical Institute, performed heroic feats in rescuing the 
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was especially able as a mathematician and orator. In his post- 
graduate course he was distinguished in Greek, and was recognized 
as the best authority in the institution in the use of the particles in 
the New Testament Greek. In 1859 ne was graduated as vale- 
dictorian from the Genesee College, now Syracuse University, and 
in 1861 from the Garrett Biblical Institute. The latter institution 
conferred upon him the degree of D. D., the first that it had ever 




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conferred upon anyone. He subsequently received the degree of 
LL. D , from Syracuse University, and also from the Wesleyan 
University. 

In 1859 ne commenced the study of law in Chicago, but before 
being admitted to the bar he yielded to the convictions of his early 
years and gave himself to the ministry. His pastorate was in 
Chicago, where he spent in all eleven years in the service of the 
principal churches there, during which period occurred the most 
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Having the largest auditorium in the city, except Bi^an Hall, he 
had vast congregations. From 1872 to 1876 he was president of 
the Northwestern University. During his wise and vigorous 
administration the number of students in all departments Very, 
greatly advanced and the University received distinction and public 
favor. In 1872 he was sent to the General Conference, and also 
in 1876, 1880 and 1884, leading the delegation twice. 

In 1874 he was sent to the General Conference of the M. E. 
Church South as a fraternal delegate. The commission was com- 
posed of A. S. Hunt, C. H. Fowler and C. B. Fisk. As this was 
the first delegation ever sent to the Church South, much public 
interest was excited. During the week succeeding the great 
Chicago fire, he put through the Rock River Conference the plan 
that pooled the interests of all the burned churches and arranged 
to have these represented upon the following Sabbath in every 
principal city of the United States. He himself visited Philadelphia 
and secured for the demolished churches over $40,000, the gifts in- 
cluding watch chains, finger rings and jewels. In 1876 he was 
appointed by the Govenor of Illinois to deliver the oration on that 
state at the Centennial in Philadelphia. In the same year the 
General Conference elected him to the editorship of the New York 
"Christian Advocate," the most important periodical of the church. 
In this capacity his sagacity, courage and eloquence as a thinker 
and writer were conspicuous, and soon brought the circulation of 
this journal to the highest figure of its history. 

In 1880 when the declining interests of the missionary cause 
demanded the most effective ability in the church, Dr. Fowler was 
elected General Missionary Secretary. During the several years 
preceding his election to this office, the receipts of the treasury had 
declined from $690,576 in 1872, to $559,371 in 1879, although the 
church was steadily advancing in membership from 1,458,041 in 
1872, to 1,699,426 in 1879. But under Dr. Fowler's adminstra- 
tion this decline was arrested, and the advance was from $559,371 
in 1879, to $83 1,028 in 1884. During all these years he was almost 
constantly on the platform or in the pulpi 4 : pleading for missions 
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In May, 1884, he was elected Bishop by the General Confer- 
ence in Phildelphia. He was consecrated and ordained Bishop by 
Bishop Simpson, this being the last official act of that eminent 
divine. The new Bishop resided eight years on the Pacific coast. 
In 1885 he sailed from New York for South America. During 
that voyage he applied unremittingly to the study of the Spanish 
language and, the Sunday after landing in Montevideo, assisted in 




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a funeral service in Spanish and made a speech in a Spanish Sun- 
day School. He was the first Protestant Bishop to visit Paraguay, 
where he planted a mission with church and school. He estab- 
lished other missions at the foot of the Andes, also in the lower 
provinces of Brazil and also down on the border of Patagonia. His 
many articles on the products, resources, and social conditions of 
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widely read and highly commended. The South America mission 
which has had a struggling existence for many years, through his 
prophetic insight and persistent advocacy, soon became an assured 
success, and Bishop Fowler won the title of the "Apostle of South 
America." 

Upon his return to the United States, in 1886, he resumed his 
work in the far west. In July, 1888, he sailed for Japan, Corea, 
China, and a tour of visitations to the missions around the world. 
His visit to Japan changed the entire character of the work of the 
missions there. At Pekin he organized the Pekin University, and 
in Central China, the Nankin University. He appointed the faculty, 
and authorized the chancellor to purchase land in the city of Nan- 
kin for a site, promising to see that t^e funds were forthcoming. 
Soon the university had nine acres of ground within the walls of the 
city and erected four beautiful university buildings. The Fowler 
College of Theology in this group is named in recognition of his 
services. So earnestly had he advocated the interests of China 
that politicians in California called him "Mr. Ah Fowler," but the 
church in many places calls him the "Apostle of China." He also 
visited the Methodist missions in Europe and planted the mission in 
Hammerfest, in the Artie Circle, the most northerly city of the 
globe . 

At St. Petersburg, Russia, in his private room in the hotel 
d'Angleterre, with his wife, son, the preacher to be appointed pas- 
tor, and the Presiding Elder of Finland, he organized the first 
Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Petersburg. By his prudence 
and knowledge of Russian treaties, he avoided conflict with the 
Russian police and secured their protection under the law. 

In California and the Pacific coast, Bishop Fowler was for 
eight years identified with nearly every church enterprise. Through 
bis guidance, the church facilities in San Francisco, especially, 
were improved, though there is hardly a principal city in the coun- 
try that has not felt the vigor and wisdom of his administration. 
He established the Maclay College of Theology in Southern Cali- 
fornia and secured an endowment of $150,000. The case was 
presented at his first interview' with Senator Maclay, and in half 
an hour the Bishop had the securities for the endowment in his 



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pocket. He consolidated the schools in Nebraska, and founded 
the Wesleyan University of that state in Lincoln. 

He transferred the educational work of Methodism in Italy from 
Florence to Rome, and there ordained a Methodist Institute. His 
administration as a Bishop has been conspicuous for its vigor, 
thoroughness and gentleness. For catholic scholarship and untir- 




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ing industry he has won much renown. His work on the "Falla- 
cies of Colenso," wrought out in the first year of his ministry, was 
exceedingly timely and gave him a marked standing for scholar- 
ship, logic, and courage. It demonstrated that another man was 
ready to grapple with the solid questions and great controversies. 

As a preacher of the Gospel he is perhaps most remarkable. 
His words are simple and direct, being of Saxon origin. He 
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of illustrations enriching with historic examples and with facts from 
science and nature. Under his preaching entire congregations 
have risen to their feet. At the close of one of his university 
lectures, while president of the Northwestern University, lecturing 
on evidences of Christianity, on the theme "What a man must be- 
lieve who refuses to believe the Bible," it was said that every un- 
converted person present, over 100 in all, went forward to the altar 
as a seeker. 

The corner stone of Christ Church, in Pittsburgh, and Calvary, 
in Alleghany City, were laid by him in one day. He published 
memorial addresses upon Bishop Ames, of Baltimore, and upon the 
life and character of Bishop Gilbert Haven, of Boston, Mass. His 
funeral oration in Chicago on the clay of Mr. Lincoln's burial, and 
his oration on Grant, delivered at the request of the city authorities 
of San Francisco, and his oration on the character of Rev. Edmund 
S. Janes, in New York city, will long be remembered. He made 
the prayer at the dedica tion of the World's Fair buildings, Chicago, 
in 1893. 

In 1892 Bishop Fowler established his home in Minneapolis, 
Minn , to whose entire citizenship he has endeared himself through 
his powerful precepts and example. He has imparted fresh inspira- 
tion to Twin Citv Methodism and has devised and executed the 
plan by which a number of the churches have been saved from 
financial ruin. 

His habits are simple. He is always cheerful. He is sympa- 
thetic in feeling, generous in nature and easily accessible. He is 
known as the "great commoner." His home is always open. It is the 
center of hospitality and of all the graces of Christian character and 
culture. In 1868 he was married to Myra A., daughter of the Rev. 
Dr. Luke Hitchcock, one of the most eminent men of the church. 
Being of rare grace, culture and common sense, she has proven 
herself a helpmeet in the largest sense, and no small factor in the 
present proud position of her husband. He has one son known by 
his writings as "Carl Fowler." He was recently elected President 
of the Senior Class in the classical course, of the State University. 



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CYRUS DAVID FOSS, D. D., LL. D. 

Cyrus David Foss, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
son of Rev. Cyrus and Jane Campbell Foss, was born in Kingston, 
New York, January 17, 1834. His father was an itinerant Metho- 
dist preacher. His mother was a woman of strong sense and deep 
piety; her great ambi ion was to train her five sons in the footsteps 
of their father. 

In his boyhood he attended school during the winter months 
and assisted his father, who was then broken in health, on a little 
farm. After a thorough preparatory course of study in Amenia 
Seminary, N. Y., he was admitted to the Wesleyan University. 
In 1854, at tne a g e °f t wen ty, he graduated at the head of his 
class. He was at once employed as teacher of mathematics in 
Amenia Seminary, which position he held for three years, and 
during the last years was its principal, 

He entered the Traveling Ministry in the New York Confer- 
ence in the spring of 1857, and was stationed a Chester, Orange 
Co., N. Y., during 1857 and 1858. For the next sixteen 
years he was pastor of six of the most prominent churches in the 
cities of Brooklyn and New York. 

In 1875 he was elected president of the Wesleyan University. 
His earnest desire was to remain in the pastorate, for which his 
love was deep and strong, and in which his labors had been 
crowned with success. But so general was the conviction through- 
out the church that he ought to heed this call, and so emphatically 
was that conviction expressed, that he yielded his preference and 
accepted the place. For five years he discharged the duties of 
his office in a masterly manner, and the friends of the institution 
rejoiced that it was under such a leader. 

He was chosen by the New York Conference, at the head of 
its delegation, to represent it at the General Conference in 1872, 
1876 and 1880. In 1878 he visited the General Conference of the 
M. E. Church South, as a delegate to present the fraternal saluta- 
tions of the M. E. Church; and in 1886 he visited the British 
Wesleyan Conference at its session in John Wesley's historic 
church, "City Road Chapel," London, on a like errand. At the' 



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General Conference of 1880 he was elected and consecrated as 
Bishop. 

In 1870 Mr Foss received the degree of D. D. from his Alma 
Mater, and that of LL. D. from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1879, anc ^ 
again from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. 




CYRUS DAVID FOSS, D. D-, LL. D. 

He has been a frequent contributor to the religious papers of 
his own church and to the Independent; and has gained a wide rep- 
utation as an able and brilliant writer. Articles from his pen 
have also appeared in the Sunday School Times, the North Ameri- 
can Review, and other periodicals. He has also published many 
sermons and addresses for special occasions. In 1881 he delivered 



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an address at his Alma Mater at the semi-centennial of the Uni- 
versity. 

He is a man of well-rounded character, possessing the great 
qualities of preacher, administrator, and leader of men. At times 
eloquent, he is always simple, direct, and convincing and commands 
the attention of his audience by forceful and earnest presentation 
of truth. 

* 

BISHOP JOHN H. VINCENT, D. D., LL. D. 

John Hevl Vincent, M. E. Bishop, born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
Feburarv 23. 1832. He was educated at academies in Milton and 
Lewisburg, Pa., began to preach at the age of eighteen, completed 
his training for the ministry at Wesleyan Institute, Newark, N. J., 
and in the four years' theological course of the New Jersey Confer- 
ence, into which he was received in 1853. He was ordained deacon 
in 1855 and elder in 1857, when he was transferred to the Rock 
River conference, serving as pastor in Galena, Chicago, and else- 
where until 1865. In that year he established the "Northwest Sun- 
day School Quarterly," and in 1866 the "Sunday School Teacher.'' 
He was appointed general agent of the Methodist Episcopal Sun- 
day School Union, and in 1868 was elected by the General Confer- 
ence corresponding secretary both of the union and of the Tract 
Society, in which posts he was continued till 1884. He wasthe 
editor of the Sunday School publications of the church, conduct- 
ing the "Sunday School Journal," published in New York City, 
with such success that its circulation rose from 16,500 to 160,000. 
while that of his lesson-books has been nearly 2,500,000 copies. 
In 1S73, with Lewis Miller, of Akron, Ohio, he projected a Sun- 
day School teachers' institute for the purpose of preparing teachers 
for their work by means of lectures and drills. The institute first 
met at Chautauqua, N. Y., in August, 1874, anc ^ ^ as si nce assem- 
bled each year in the same place. It has extended beyond the 
limits of its original design, and given rise to allied institutions, 
which, as well as the Sunda} T School assemblies and the interna- 
tional lessons, extend their benefits to members of all Christian 
bodies. The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, which pre- 
scribes courses of reading for all classes of people, was founded in 



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1878, and within a few years had 100,000 students on its rolls. In 
connection with this the Chautauqua University was established, 
a summer school in which lectures on most of the arts and sciences 
are given, and of which Bishop Vincent, who received the degree of 
D. D. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1870, and that of LL. D. 




JOHN H. VINCENT, D. D., LL. D. 



from Washington and Jefferson in 1885, has been chancellor from 
the beginning. At the general Conference of 1888 he was elected 
a Bishop. Among his published works are "Little Footprints in 
Bible Lands" (New York, *86i); "The Chautauqua Movement" 
(18S6); "The Home Book" (1886); "The Modern Sunday 
School" (1887); and "Better Not." 



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GOVERNOR KNUTE NELSON 

Knute Nelson, of Alexandria. Minnesota, was born in the par- 
ish of Voss, near the City of Bergen, Norway, on the 2d day of 




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February, A. D., 1843. When threfc years of age he lost his 
father. He came to the United States with his mother in July 
1849, living in Chicago, 111., till the fail of 1S50, when he moved to 



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the State of Wisconsin, where he resided till August, 187 1, when 
he moved to Alexandria, Minn., which has ever since been his home. 
In boyhood he attended a Methodist Sunday School and at one 
time taught a Bible class. 

He is a graduate of Albion Wisconsin Academy. He served 
in the War of the Rebellion as a private and non-commissioned 
officer in Company B, Fourth Wisconsin Regiment, from May, 1861, 
until July, 1864; was wounded and taken prisoner on the 14th day- 
of June, 1863, in the seige of Port Hudson, La. He was admitted 
to the bar of the Circuit Court for Dane County, Wisconsin, in the 
spring of 1867; was a member of the Assembly in the Wisconsin 
Legislature in 1868 and 1869; was County Attorney for Douglass 
County, Minnesota, in 1872, 1873 and 1874; was State Senator in 
the Minnesota Legislature in 1875, x 876, 1877 an d 1878; was Pre- 
sidential Elector on the Republican ticket in 1880; was a member 
of the Board of Regents of the State University from February 1st, 
1882, to January, 1893; was a member of the Forty-eighth Con- 
gress from the then Fifth District of Minnesota, elected by a plu- 
rality of 4,500 over Kindred, Independent Republican, and Barnum, 
Democrat; was a member of the Forty -ninth Congress from the 
; ame District, elected by a majority of 12,500 over Baxter, Demo- 
crat; and was a member of the Fiftieth Congress from the same 
District, elected by a majority of 41,698 over Long, Prohibitionist. 

He was nominated unanimously by acclamation as candidate 
for Governor, by the Republican State Convention on July 29th, 
1892, and was elected Governor on November 8th, 1892, by a plu- 
rality of 14,620 votes over Lawler, Democrat; Donnelly, People's 
Party; and Dean, Prohibitionist. After filling this exalted position, 
with great credit to himself and the state, for one term, he was 
again nominated by his party and re-elected by an overwhelming 
majority at the last election. 

GEORGE N. HILLMAN 

The subject of this sketch was born at Greenwich, Washing- 
ton County, N. Y., July 14, 1852, of Methodist parentage; united 
with the M. E. Church when about thirteen. Attended common 
school, village academv and Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. 



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When about eighteen, he taught the large district school, win- 
ter term, at Battenville; afterwards two winter terms at Center 
Falls, sometimes humorously known as "Hard-scrabble." 

When about thirteen, he became an earnest student of Graham's 
Standard of American Phonography ; at seventeen did his first public 
reporting, and three years later became the official reporter of the 




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Washington County Court. About this time he was married to 
Miss Mary Emma Cutter, also of Methodist parentage. 

Coming to Minnesota in the spring of 1874, ne was soon a P~ 
pointed official reporter of the District Court of Hennepin County, 
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to accept the position of official reporter of the District Court of 
the second judicial district, at St. Paul, which difficult and import- 
ant position he has held ever since. 

He is one of the most accurate and rapid stenographers in the 
United States, and as a law reporter has had a remarkable career. 
As early as 1875 he received a flattering testimonial from Henry 
Ward Beecher upon the report of a sermon delivered at the opera 
house in St. Paul, who spoke of it as "the best report he had ever 




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received outside of the city of New York." He was employed to 
report two important impeachment trials at the State Capitol, and 
made daily transcripts of the testimony for the use of the members 
of the court, each trial comprising several large volumes; has also 
reported several legislative investigations, proceedings of conven- 
tions, important legal arguments, political meetings, sermons, 
lectures, etc. In making daily transcripts of court proceedings, his 
shorthand notes are sometimes dictated by assistants skilled in the 
art, even in technical cases. 



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He has ever manifested marked and active interest in religious 
matters, in charitable institutions in general, in the denomination of 
his choice in particular, and has contributed materially to the found- 
ing and maintenance of Oxford M. E. Church. He has taken an 
active part in all the various departments of church work and has 
been particularly helpful in church music, vocal and instrumental. 

In his business he is painstaking, careful and industrious, and, 
while noted for his liberality, has acquired a reasonable competence. 




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Of modest and unassuming manner, of kindly disposition, he has 
secured the confidence and esteem of a large circle of acquaintances 
and friends. 

He has three sons and three daughters, all young Methodists, 
musically inclined, who still reside with their parents at their com- 
fortable home in St. Paul, corner of Dale street and Lincoln avenue. 



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SOMERS C. ROBINSON 

Somers C. Robinson, manufacturer, was born at West 
Creek, Cumberland county, N. C, March 21, 1831, son of Morris 
and Mary Robinson. His early education was acquired in the 
district school. When fifteen years of age he left the farm and 




SOMERS C. ROBINSON 



was apprenticed to the village carpenter with whom he served 
three years. In the meantime, much against the will of his 
employer, he joined the Methodist church. This caused him 
severe persecution and to avoid it he ran away and went to sea. 
While absent, his employer repented his harshness and asked him 



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to return. This led to a reconciliation, and on his return he com- 
pleted his term of apprenticeship, and, at the age of twenty-one, he 
received his first wages as a carpenter. The next year he married 
Maria H., daughter of Hon. Levi Dare, a prominent citizen of 
Cumberland county. He continued his occupation of carpenter 
until he was twenty-six years old when he took up the business of 
contractor and builder. 




RESIDENCE OF SOMERS C. ROBINSON 



In 1857 he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he found 
profitable employment at his trade for nine months. Upon his re- 
turn to New Jersey for his family, the opposition offered by his 
wife's father to her settling in so wild a place as Kansas then was, 
determined him to locate in some other section of the west, and in 
1858 he took his family to Minnesota and located at St. Anthony, 
where he built a house and made for them an humble but comforta- 
ble home. 



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After eight years of success as a contractor and builder in 
St. Anthony, he removed to the new and growing city of Minne- 
apolis, where he continued to thrive. Here he formed a partner- 
ship, and entered into the manufacture of building material on a 
large scale. The business resulted in the Bard well-Robin son 
Company, the largest manfacturers of building supplies in the state. 
His son, Charles N. Robinson, became a member of the concern in 
1884. Mr. Robinson is an ardent Republican in politics and an 
earnest member of the Hennepin Avenue Church. He is also 
treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Fowler Church. His 
charities to churches and schools are large but unostentatious. 

REV. WILLIAM KENNEDY MARSHALL, D. D. 

William Kennedy Marshall, was born at Steubenville, Ohio, 
being the son of Abner and Sarah Marshall. His father was of 
English descent and his mother of Scotch. He was reared and 
educated in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In 1857 he established 
and edited the Brownsville Times, at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. 
In 1858, he was united in marriage to Miss Sally Gosline of 
Brownsville. In September of the same year he united with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Brownsville under the pastorate 
of the late Rev. Ezra Hingeley, D. D. In March, i860, he 
was admitted on trial in the Pittsburgh Conference and appointed 
to Mt. Morris Circuit. Following this, he served two years on the 
Red Stone Circuit, two years at Ballair, Ohio, and one year at St. 
Clairsville, Ohio. 

In the spring of 1866, he was transferred to Kansas Confer- 
ence and stationed at Atchison two years, at First Church Leaven- 
worth city, two years, Presiding Elder of Leavenworth District, 
two years, and Lawrence Station, three years. In 1872 he was 
chairman of the Kansas Delegation in the General Conference at 
Brooklyn. In 1875 he was transferred to the St. Louis Conference 
and stationed at Warrensburg, Missouri. His next appointment 
was Presiding Elder of the Sedalia District, but failing health made 
it necessary to give up this work at the end of the year. He then 
took charge of the Sedalia Station for two years after which he 



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was stationed at Central Church, St. Louis. Thence he was 
transferred, in 1881, to the Minnesota Conference and stationed at 
Jackson Street Church. At the close of three years he was as- 
signed to Rochester, then to Thirteenth Avenue, Minneapolis, 
then to Trinity and at the last Conference was appointed Presid- 
ing Elder of the St. Paul District. 




REV. W. K. MARSHALL, D. D. 



The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him in 1879 by Centenary College, Indianola, Iowa. He has 
been a writer for most of our periodicals from the Advocates up to 
the Methodist Review. He has traveled through England, Ire- 
land, Scotland and France. He has gained much notoriety as a 



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lecturer. He preaches the gospel without apology and always 
makes immediate application of the truths he preaches to the 
hearts of the people, expecting instantaneous results. 

H.R. BRILL 

H. R. Brill was born in the Province of Quebec in 1846. 
His ancesters were Holland Dutch who settled on the Hudson in 




H. R. BRILL 



New York. His maternal grandfather and grandmother were 
named Adam and Eve (Sager). He came to Minnesota with his 
parents when thirteen years of age. He lived on a farm until he 
was twenty-one working and attending school winters and some- 
times teaching. He attended Hamline at Red Wing off and on 
for four years and spent one year at Michigan University. He 



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moved to St. Paul in 1867 where he has since lived. He studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in 1S69. He was elected Probate 
Judge and held that office in 1873-4. ^ n I ^75 ne was appointed 
District Judge which position he still holds, having been elected 
three times since. Although a republican in principle, he 
has taken no part in politics since his elevation to the bench 
He has been trustee of Hamline University for many years and 
was president of the board for some time. His father and mother 
and grand parents on both sides were active and honorable Metho- 
dists. His fathers house was known far and wide as a stopping- 
place for Methodist ministers where they were always royally en- 
tertained. Mr. Brill has always taken an active part in church 
affairs. He has served as Sunday School teacher, librarian, and 
superintendent frequently. He has served as steward, district 
steward, trustee, Membei of Lay Electoral Conference several 
times. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the First 
Church, St. Paul, of which church he has been an influential mem- 
ber ever since he located in St. Paul. He was received into the 
church at Red Wing while a student there, by Dr. Cyrus Brooks. 
He was a member of the last General Conference and chairman of 
the Judiciary Committee, writing all the reports. 



REV. R. Pv. ATCHISON 



Rev. R. R. Atchison was born at Elizabeth city, Xew Jersey, 
September 14, 1844. He was converted in early life and began 
in the ministry as a local preacher in 187 1. As such he preached 
for eight years in Boston, Massachusetts, and seven years in 
Chicago, Illinois. He joined the Minnesota Conference in Octo- 
ber, 18S6 and was first appointed pastor of the Twenty-fourth 
Street Church, Minneapolis. During the year the indebtedness 
on the church was paid, the church was remodeled and the people 
were blessed with a gracious revival in which many were converted. 
At the following Conference he was appointed to North Church, 
at Camden Place, and enjoyed two prosperous and happy years in 
this pastorate which were blessed with two successful revivals, 
after which the church building was enlarged and paid for. 



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At the Conference in 1889 he 
was appointed to the First Church, St. 
Cloud. This church had been without 
a settled pastor for nine months. Re- 
ligious interest was at low ebb and the 
church building sadly out of repair. 
Before the close of the year, 50 per- 
sons professed conversion, 36 of whom 
united with the church. The church 
was remodeled at a cost of $1,219, 
all of which was raised and paid as soon 
as the work was completed. At the 
Conference in 1891, he was appointed 
to the Western Avenue M. E. Church, 
Minneapolis. He found a loyal and liberal society struggling under 
a weight of $3,200 debt. Brother Atchison took an immediate hold 
of the situation and did not relinquish his grasp until the debt was 
paid. Two successful revival seasons crowned his ministry, in 
which over 100 were converted, 87 of whom have united with the 
church. 

After such an unbroken record of pastoral success, character- 
ized by spiritual triumph and rare executive ability, it is not strange 
that, at the recent Conference, he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of Willmar District of the Northern Minnesota Conference. 




REV. R. R. ATCHISON 



WARREN HOWARD HAYES 

The subject of this sketch was born at Prattsburgh, N. Y., Au- 
gust 22, 1847, of good New England stock. His ancestors 
emigrated from Scotland to Derbyshire, England, thence to 
Windsor, Conn., in 1680, where descendants of the family still 
live, having given many honored names to professional, municipal, 
state and federal positions, the most prominent having been Presi- 
dent R. B. Haves. 

The early years of his life were amidst the country scenes of 
the large and successful farm of his father, George Goundry Hayes, 
in central N. Y. At five commencing school life at "the little red 



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school-house;" at twelve entering a private school in Italy, thence 
two years at Watkins Academy, here, in 1865, joining on proba- 
tion the First M. E. Church, (whose present fine edifice erected in 
later years, was from his first church design) two years 1867 a °d 
1868 at Genesee Wesley an Seminary at Seima, N. Y. In the fall 




WARREX HOWARD HAYES 



of 1S6S entering Cornell University on Oct. 8th, inaugural day. hav- 
ing passed the first year class examinations and after three years 
successful work in the courses of Civil Engineering and Architect- 
ure, graduating with his class June 21. 187 1. having taken two 
President White first prizes for proficiency- 



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The next ten years were given to the practice of his chosen 
profession, Architecture, offices in Elmira, N. Y., where he was 
married in 1881 to Miss M. F. Beardslev. 

Church Architecture from the first was made a special study 
and practice. 

The growing fame of the Twin Cities later attracted his atten- 
tion as affording a center for wider practice and an office was 
opened in Minneapolis, thirteen years since, and where in 1886 he 
was married to Mrs. Lillie Cook VanNorman of Hamilton, Ont., 
his first wife having died four years previous. Mr. Hayes' services 
as a church Architect, are in demand east and west, some of his 
home work being familiar with theTwin Cities, he having designed 
nineteen of their better churches, as well as many of the prominent 
business and school buildings, among the latter are those of Hamline 
University and the House of The Good Shepherd Convent in St. 
Paul. 

HENRY BEEMER 

Henry Beemer was born in Ontario, Nov. 5, 1836, of Methodist 
parentage. His father Joseph, and his mother Elizabeth Beemer, 
were fully consecrated to the great work of the church and their 
home was always open to ministers and missionaries. This was a 
typical, Christian home, free from all selfishness, bitterness and 
cynical treatment of others. Its atmosphere was laden with 
Christian love and its altar continually burned with the fires of true 
devotion. It is not strange that the son, Henry, is so strong in his 
devotion to Christ and allegiance to the church. 

He was educated in the public schools. In i860 he moved to 
Michigan, thence to Illinois in 1865 and to Iowa in 1866, where 
nineteen years of his life were spent. For twenty years he was 
engaged in the monument business and for the past twelve years 
has been engaged in life insurance. In both lines he has been 
signally successful. His sterling integrity, indomitable energy ; 
rare social qualities, great heartedness, and warm sympathy for all 
in need of help have been the elements entering into his successful 
career. 



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He came to Minneapolis in 1885. He had been converted in • 
1883 at Marshalltown, Iowa, where he united with the church. He 
was a Methodist when he reached Minneapolis and at once united 
with Simpson Church. He afterwards united with the Lake Street 
Church which he helped to organize. He is now a prominent and 
influential member of Wesley Church. He was elected a delegate 
to the General Conference at Omaha in 1892. 




HbNKY BEEMER 

He was married in 1857 to Nancy Averill. Four children 
have been born of this union. The two eldest are dead; one son 
and one daughter are living. 

Mr. Beemer is one of the progressive citizens of Minneapolis. 
His name stands for the moral as well as material interests of the city. 
There is no question mark over his attitude upon any great public 
question. He has been one of the liberal supporters of our church 



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and is always ready to help the helpless and to contribute to deserv- 
ing enterprises. 

W. C. RICE 

W. C. Rice was born in Will 

County, Illinois, August 3, 1840, and 
came to Minnesota and settled at 
Rochester in 1856. He was converted 




and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church when nineteen. He was edu- 
cated at Hamline University. In 1863 
he was married to Miss Emma Eber- 
man. He united with the Minnesota 
Conference in 1865. On account of 
failing health he located in 1881, but in 
1889 he was re-admitted to the effect- 



W C RICE * ve ran k- He has filled the following- 

appointments: St. Charles, Plainview, 
Wabasha, Rochester, Presiding Elder of Rochester District, Red 
Wing, First Church, Minneapolis, Clinton Church, St. Paul, and 
Zumbrota. While located he supplied the Presbyterian church in 
Red Wing one year, and the Congregational church in Zumbrota six 
years, during which time he edited the Rochester Post one year and 
was the first State Dairy Commissioner for two years. He has secured 
the building of three parsonages, the building or purchasing of 
three churches, and has led the churches in paying $60,000 in- 
debtedness. He has received 558 persons into the churches on 
probation and has baptized more than 350. 

As a preacher he is precise and logical never failing to interest 
and edify his large congregations. He is thoroughly consecrated 
to the work and prizes above all things the privilege of preaching 
the gospel. 

ELIJAH HALEY 

Elijah Haley was born near the city of Oxford, England, April 
7, 1836. He was educated in the National School under the care 



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of the State Church. At the age 
of fourteen, he carelessly wandered in- 
to a primitive Methodist chapel. He 
here became convinced that he needed 
a change of heart and under the burn- 
ing exhortation he immediately surren- 
dered to God and received that great 
blessing. Life took on a new form to 
him. He at once felt that it was 
fraught with great responsibility. He 
heard the voice of God calling him in 
to his vineyard and he responded, 
— -"Here am I, send me." 
ELIJAH HALEY At the age of nineteen he was 

given a license to preach as a primi- 
tive Methodist local preacher, and served as such until 187 1 
when he entered the regular ministr}', on the Barrsley circuit, 
Yorkshire. After having traveled four years he was refused 
admission into the conference, being over twenty-five years of 
age, — which was the iron-clad limit of the church. On a pressing 
invitation from a friend, he brought his family to America. In 
1876 he was admitted into the Illinois Conference, Bishop Wile}^ 
presiding. In this Conference he served the following charges: 
Dawson, two years; Chesterfield, one year ; Raymond, three years. 
While at the latter place he was transferred to the Minnesota Con- 
ference where he served High Forest, three years; Kasson, two 
years; Eyota, two 3-ears; Bloomington Avenue, four years, the 
present year completing the five years' term. His work at the 
Bloomington Avenue Church has been very successful. Under his 
indefatigable labors, the indebtedness has been removed and the 
church has been brought into a state of peace and prosperity. 

JOSEPH C. PIERSON, JR. 

Joseph C. Pierson was born May 1, 1857, at Newark, New 
Jersey. His ancestors were the founders of Newark; he is a de- 
scendant of Rev. Abraham Pierson, the first Presbyterian minister 




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of Newark, whose son was the first president of Yale College. 
His great, great grandfather settled near Springfield, N. J., and 
during the Revolutionary battle of Springfield his house was used 
for the wounded colonial soldiers, it being still in possession of the 
Pierson family. 




JOSEPH C. PIERSON, Jr. 



f™jMr. Pierson was educated at the Newark Academy and the 
Pingry Institute, of Elizabeth, N. J. At the age of seventeen he 
entered the hardware store of Hart, Bliven & Mead, New York 
City. The following year he went into the office of James Clark 
Wilson & Co. where he was employed in several positions until the 
firm failed. 



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In 1877 he went to San Francisco. Although especially 
skilled in the hardware business, his energy and tact were sufficient 
for any employment and upon arriving in California he soon re- 
ceived a position in a stationery house as entry clerk. He remained 
there until he became salesman in the large and well known hard- 
ware house of Huntington, Hopkins & Co., which position he 
occupied to his credit until his failing health compelled him to move 
to Nevada where he remained for a year. He then returned east 
and occupied several responsible positions until October, 1882, when 




PiERSON HARDWARE CO.'S STORE 



he started in manfacturing hardware in Newark, N. J. In 1884 his 
business was consolidated with the old and reputable wholesale 
and commission house of Flagler, Forsythe& Bradly, to which firm 
his name was added. 

On December 21, 1883, he was united in marriage to the 
youngest daughter of Abraham Baker, whose father was one of 
the Knickerbocker families of New York City. 

Mr. Pierson was for some time a member of the Unitarian 
Society, in which he was an active and influential worker, but in 
1890 he came to recognize Christ as more than a mere man, as the 



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"Son of the living God" and the Savior of the world. He at once 
united with the Methodist Church of Plainfield and became active 
in its movements as well as a zealous worker in the Y. M. C. A. 
Upon coming to Minneapolis, he incorporated the Pierson Hard- 
ware Co., which business, under his management, has grown in 
prosperity until it ranks among the strongest houses in the North- 
west. 

He is an official member of the Fowler Church and a tireless 
worker in the Y. M. C. A. He is genial and pleasant, always 
affable to his customers and hospitable in his beautiful home. 
Although absorbed in business, the success of which is a testimony 
to his rare ability he is nowhere as happy or contented as at his 
own fireside, where his wife and children are the constant objects 
of his tender care and love. 

F. A. DUNSMOOR, M. D. 

Dr. F. A. Dunsmoor was born May 28th, 1853, at the little 
settlement of Harmony, now included within the city limits of Min- 
neapolis. His father, Jas. A. Dunsmoor, came to St. Anthony in 
1842, from Farmington, Me., where he had been a man of promi- 
nence, representing his district in the legislature and discharging 
other offices of trust and honor. 

Fredrick Alanson received his education at the public schools 
of Richfield and Minneapolis, and later, at the State Universitv . 
At the age of sixteen he taught school for one term ; then, following 
the strong bent of his own inclinations, he began to read medicine 
in the office of Drs. Goodrich and Kimball, going later to New 
York, where he took the full course of the Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, of the three years 1873, I §74, 1875, taking his 
degree of M. D. in March, 1875. During these years he also 
received private instruction in surgery from Dr. Frank H. Hamil- 
ton; in diseases of the chest, from Drs. Loomis and Flint; in 
pathology, from Dr. E. G. Janeway, and in chemistry, from Dr. R. 
Ogden Doremus. After graduation he entered into a partnership 
with Dr. H. H. Kimball, which was disolved in 1877. 



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In 1876 he was married to Elizabeth Emma Billings Turner, 
daughter of the late Surgeon Geo. F. Turner, U. S. A. Mrs. 
Dunsmoor comes of good pioneer blood. Her father, Surgeon 
Turner, a lineal descendant of the famous Puritan. Capt. Miles 
Standish, was stationed at Ft. Snellingin 1846, when all this region 




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DR. F. A. DUNSMOOR, M. D. 

was a vast "happy hunting ground," and was the contemporary 
and beloved friend of such pioneers as Gov. H. H. Sibley, Gen. R. 
VV. Johnson, Franklin Steel, Father Geer, Rev. Dr. Williamson, 
and others. Seven children have been born to them, of whom but 
three are living, Marjorie Allport, Elizabeth Turner, and one son. 
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In surgery he ranks deservedly high. It has been his master 
passion from boyhood. . 

As an operator he is bold, rapid and skillful, with firmness and 
precision of touch, which seems intuitive to him. His enthusiastic 
love for his profession keeps him abreast of every advance, both 
in the practice of surgery, and in the invention and improvement of 
instruments and appliances. Flying visits to the great medical 
centers keep him in touch with the leading surgeons of the day, 
and he is well known and highly rated outside of the limits of his 
own field, being summoned to attend cases in Chicago, New York, 
Montana, Washington, California, and so far south as the city of 
Mexico. 

A warm-hearted, companionable man, he loves to meet with 
men in every walk and does not restrict his affiliations to the medi- 
cal profession. He is a Mason, a Druid, a Good Templar, etc., 
and an active member of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church 
where he has served for many years on the official board. Inhabits 
he has always been a total abstainer from the use of liquor and 
tobacco, and in his manner of life, thoroughly domestic, being 
never happier than when he can gather a congenial group of friends 
about him in his elegant, hospitable home on Tenth street and 
devote a few half hours to social intercourse and music. 

HORATIO FRANCIS LILLIBRIDGE 

Horatio Francis Lillibridge was in every sense the world's 
idea of a self-made man. His father was a school teacher, and he 
the youngest of a family of seven children. Salaries of peda- 
gogues were small in those days and consequently the father had 
little means above the family necessities. The youngest son was 
born May 26, 1836, at Staffordville, Connecticut. When he was 
only six months old his father, the only support of the family, 
was taken away and thus the mother was left with her seven chil- 
dren. The older children had scattered, even then, and it was de- 
cided that the mother and Horatio should live with his grandmother. 
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of her son, indomitable perseverance, indefatigable industry, and 
the highest sense of honor. 

At the age of nine years Horatio commenced work in one of 
the cotton mills, so numerous in Connecticut, at a meagre salary; 
but his faithfulness to his work never wavered. He was employed 
in various ways until the age of fourteen when he became a clerk 
in a general store. At seventeen he commenced work for a bank 
and here he gained valuable knowledge in book-keeping and ac- 
counts. Even at this time his ambition was large and he looked 
westward for its gratification. His money had all been spent in 
helping the family but his mother and sister had saved a little. He 
borrowed $100 of them and came to Minneapolis at the age of 
nineteen. Remaining here but a month, he pushed on to Monti- 
cello, and there invested his $100 in town sites between that place 
and Forest City. As it was only boom property his money was sunk 
beyond recall. This experience, coming so early in his western 
career, was invaluable to him as it taught him that careful conser- 
vatism and excellent judgment which he afterwards manifested in 
so great a degree. 

His conversion was a matter of early development. His grand- 
father was a Baptist preacher and the grandson leaned towards 
that denomination, but on January 2, 1859, ne married Cynthia A. 
Jenks, whose family were staunch Methodists and a short time be- 
fore his marriage he, too, united with th^ Methodist Church. 

His life at Monticello was the commencement of his remark- 
able business career. First a clerk, then a partner. After nine 
vears he returned to Minneapolis. He had some capital and first 
went into the lumber business but sold out and commenced work as 
book-keeper in the Pacific Mill. Again he became a partner, and 
was interested there until he went into the bakery business. Here 
he met his highest success and by honesty, industry and economy 
built up his magnificient business and fortune. 

About ten years ago he began thinking of a new edifice for 
Centenary Methodist Church. The question was thoroughly agi- 
tated, but it was not until four years ago that the way seemed 
clear. Mr. Lillibridge was a deep thinker and in all his undertak- 
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about the building of the new church for a long time he decided to 
render the necessary assistance. Here the character of the man 
and his consecrated purpose shone forth in greatest splendor. In 
order to obtain the necessary funds he mortgaged his best real 
estate. Not only did he furnish money but he gave his time and 
labor. His ability as a financier was needed in the building of the 
church and he looked after every detail with careful consideration 
and unquestioned success. 

About six years before his death his health had become im- 
paired by his close confinement to business and he travelled exten- 
sively, but despite everything else he took time to look after the 
church. 

He died June 3, 1894. His friends said that no ordinary funeral 
sermon could do for him, and so it was arranged that the service 
should be an open one — for testimony, not for eulogy. Several 
friends spoke from the fullness of their hearts. Judge Vander- 
burgh, Rev. C. A. VanAnda, D. D., Rev. Jabez Brooks, D. D., 
Mr. J. E. Bell, Rev. R. M. Carter, Rev. George Galpin and Rev. 
H. H. French, all contributed their testimonies. The church — his 
church, was filled with mourners. Nearly 100 of the employees of 
the American Biscuit Company were there in a body as a token of 
their love and respect. Then he was laid away in Lakewood 
Cemetery. 

In life he gave liberally of time, labor and money, and although 
he has gone, he has provided $15,000 more for different branches 
of church work. His wife and two daughters survive him, who 
have his spirit of loyalty and consecration to the church. 

WILLIAM McKINLEY, D. D. 

William McKinley was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 
24, 1834, son of George and Margaret McDonald McKinley. His 
paternal grandfather, John McKinley, lived in the north of Ireland, 
but moved to Scotland during the political troubles of 1793. His 
maternal grandfather, Angus McDonald, was a Scotch highbinder 
and British soldier in the wars of the French revolution. In 1841 
young McKinley emigrated with his parents to the United States, 



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settling 



Baltimore Co., 
uncle to Illinois where he 



Md., and in 1849 ne accompanied an 
spent the next six years in teaching 
He was chiefly educated 
in Maryland, and at Rock River Seminary, 
111., supplemented with a brief period at Beloit 



and attending school and private studies 
at private schools 
Mount Morris 




wm. Mckinley, d. d. 

College, Wis., left the latter institution on account of ill health, 
and in 1855 came to Minnesota. He was licensed to preach in the 
same year, and in 1S56 was admitted on trial in the Minnesota 
Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church : received 
into full membership in 1858, an ordained elder in 1859. During 
the last named year he was married to Amy A. Sumner, who died 
in 1871. He w r as again married in 1S76 to Alice B. Havward. 



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Dr. McKinley served successively as pastor in the following 
charges: Northfield, Minn., Trempealeau, Wis., Hokah, Minn., 
one year each; Taylor's Falls four years. He was for one year 
chaplain in the army. Other pastorates held by him were at First 
Church, Minneapolis, two years: First Church, Winona, three 
terms, nine years; Jackson Street, St. Paul, three years; First 
Church, Duluth, two years; Knoxville, Term., one year; Church 
of Christian Endeavor, Brooklyn^ N. Y., one year; Red Wing, 
three years; Hamline, St. Paul, five years; Presiding Elder of 
Winona district, two years, and of St. Paul district three years. 
He is now pastor of Central Park Church, St. Paul. He was 
elected delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church in 1876, 1880, and 1892. The degree of D. D. was 
conferred on him by Hamline University in 1884. 

CHARLES W. DAVIES 

Charles W. Davies was born in 1854 at Whitesboro, N. Y. 
His parents were Welch, and sturdy members of the Congrega- 
tional Church. Their son Charles was a precocious youth. He 
was always quick, wide awake, ready to answer any question and 
of an inquisitive turn of mind. 

He completed the course of public schools and entered as a 
student into the Whitesboro Seminary. Here he continued to take 
elective studies until he was twenty years of age. Upon leaving 
school, he went to Utica and served as an apprentice in a large 
jewelry store. He felt a natural inclination toward engraving and 
after working under one of the engravers of that city long enough 
to acquire a thorough knowledge of the art he formed a partner- 
ship with his employer which continued for two years. He then 
went to Syracuse and started into business for himself. But no 
sooner had he gained a foot-hold than he was burned out, thus 
being reduced to a state of most embarrassing poverty; yet 
possessed of unflinching courage he faced the world determined 
not to surrender. At this time he was drawn toward the West 
and started for Minneapolis. He stopped at Grand Rapids where 
he worked a while at his trade and again at Chicago finally reach- 



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ing his destination. Without friends, standing or resources in this 
new city, he began business in his own name. He was determined 
to succeed. He converted a store box into a table and with a few 
tools and plenty of pluck he began as the pioneer engraver of Min- 
neapolis. How well he has succeeded needs no statement, for his 
business, under his tireless and persistent care, has grown until its 




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patrons are not onlv of his own city but throughout the entire 
Northwest. He has won a reputation for rare ability in his an and 
does work for those of the most delicate taste and refined style. 
His place of business, at 610 Nicollet Avenue, is neat and com- 
modious and alwavs supplied with the latest and best materials in 
the line. 



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He was married in 1885 to Miss Clara S. Getz, of Delaware, 
Ohio. She was reared in a Methodist home and is a lady of strong- 
Christian character. Their home, 916 Girard avenue, is always 
open to their friends and is filled with books, music and rare works 
of art. 



HERBERT W. SEAGER 

Herbert W. Seager was born Au- 
gust 16, 1864, at Red Wing, where his 
parents w r ere leading members of the 
Methodist Church. His grandfather 
was a Presiding Elder in the Western 
New York Conference for several 
years and was known as a man of great 
power in the ministry. His parents 
moved to Minnesota in 1857 and settled 
at Red Wing, but subsequently moved 
to St. Paul where Herbert was educated 
in the public schools. In 1880 he was 

employed as a clerk in a large whole- 
HERBERT W. SEAGER , , v , £ ^ u 

sale iruit and conrectionery store. He 

continued in this position for one year 

and then went to work for an agricultural implement firm. This 

firm failed in 1884 and he then went into the office of Nichols 

& Dean, in St. Paul, as book-keeper and remained until he 

moved to Minneapolis and began as cashier of the Minneapolis Iron 

Store Company. Having been reared under Methodist influence 

he had always felt it his duty to be a Christian but did not reach 

a decision to accept Christ until 1890 when he was thoroughly 

converted at his own home. 

He was married September 10, 1885, to Miss Harriet H. 

Barston, of St. Paul. After his conversion, himself and wife united 

with Grace Church, St. Paul. Upon coming to Minneapolis 

thev identified themselves with the First Church, during w r hich 

membership Mr. Seager has served in various official capacities. 

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and become so thoroughly identified with the movement that his 
influence won recognition among the young people of the sister 
churches. As a result, he was elected at the last convention at 
Red Wing as State President of the Epworth League and confirmed 
by the late Annual Conference. This gives him a broader field 
for his unusual ability as an organizer. It places him in the leader- 
ship of 321 leagues and at least 14,000 leaguers. It is believed 
that under his administration the work of the league in Minnesota 
will receive a great impetus. 

JOHN D. ENGLE 

John D. Engle was born November 6, i860, in Maryland 
His parents were members of the Methodist Church. He attended 
the public schools in his boyhood and subsequently was a student 
in Hamline University. He was converted at the age of twelve 
and united with the Methodist Church with which he has been con- 
nected ever since. He is at present an official member of the 
Merriam Park Church in St. Paul. 

He was married in 1886 to Miss Eunice Dowling and is the 
father of three children. 

He is the popular agent of the Globe Furnishing Company 
and is well known among the church people of the Twin Cities. 

CHARLES CURTISS COFFEE 

Charles Curtiss Coffee was born at Alliance, Ohio, June 1, 
1862, of Methodist parentage. After graduating from the High 
School at Alliance in 1879 he attended Mt. Union College. 

His father was a dentist and the son decided to follow the same 
profession. He entered his father's office in 1880 where he re- 
ceived his initial training, but he realized the necessity of the most 
thorough preparation and after pursuing a course in dental surgery 
in the Pennsylvania College, he graduated in 1884. x\fter prac- 
ticing with his father for two years he took a pleasure trip into the 
West and spent some time at Lake Minnetonka. During this trip 
he became so impressed with Minneapolis that he decided to make 



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it his home. He returned East and closing out his interests 
there came to Minneapolis in 1886, where he has since prosecuted 
his profession. 

He was married to Miss Alma V. Welt, September 19, 1888, 
at Alliance, Ohio. They are members of the Hennepin Avenue 
Church, having united with it soon after coming to Minneapolis. 




CHARLES CURTISS COFFEE 



Dr. Coffee was a very active member of the church at Alliance 
and was especially effective in the musical department. As a den- 
tist he has forged his way to the head of the profession. His motto 
has always been "first class work" and upon this basis he has be- 
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He is thoroughly conversant with the latest methods and facilities 
of his profession, and in his attractive offices in the Century Build- 
ing he has a complete equipment for meeting all the demands of 
his large practice. 



GEORGE M. EAXGUM 




GEORGE M. EAXGUM 



George M. Langum was born in 
1S67 at Spring V alley, Minnesota. His 
parents were members of the Lutheran 
Church. He attended the public schools 
until he was thirteen years old. After 
this he attended the High School at 
Castle. South Dakota; the college at 
Brookings, South Dakota, for two 
years: the State Normal School, at 
Madison, S. D., for over a vear. and 
the Business College at La Crosse. 
Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 
the commercial and shorthand depart- 
ment. While in Dakota he devoted 
some of his time as a teacher in the 
public schools. He also taught while a student at the La Crosse 
Institution. 

Upon graduation, he was placed in charge of *he Actual 
Business department. After serving in this capacitv for a season 
lie attended the Northern Normal School at Dixon. 111., gradua- 
ting from its pen and art department. While at Dixon, he also 
assisted in teaching. 

He then came to Minneapolis where he is serving at present 
as principal of the commercial department of the L T niversitv ot 
Commerce and Finance. 

Mr. Langum is bright and capable as a teacher, He is a 
member of the Fowler Church. 



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SILAS D. HILLMAN. 

The second son of George W. and Chloe A. Hillman was born 
upon a farm in the town of Greenwich, Washington County, New 
York, September 23, 1845. His parents were earnest and loyal 
members of the M. E. Church. An elder brother, Rev. John H. 




SILAS D. HILLMAN 



Hillman, a graduate of Garrett Biblical Institute, at Concord, was 
for many }^ears an efficient and leading member of the New Hamp- 
shire Conference. The subject of th's sketch united with the 
church when thirteen years of age; attended common schools and 
Greenwich Academy until eighteen years of age when he engaged 
his first school, teaching two terms in his native state and five terms 



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afterwards in Minnesota, coming to *he latter state in the fall of 
1867. In June, 1870, he married Miss M. J. Somerville, the amiable 
and accomplished daughter of Hon. Wtn. Somerville, of Olmsted 
County. In the winter of 1874 ne prepared and secured the pass- 
age of a general act by the legislature authorizing the employment of 
stenographic reporters in the courts of this state. He was ap- 
pointed official reporter of the third judicial district and occupied 
that position for some sixteen years, being also employed from 
time to time in other portions of the state and in Wisconsin. In the 
spring of 1874 ne purchased an interest in the Rochester Record 
and Union and was for some six years associate editor and pub- 
lisher of that periodical. In the spring of 1882 he removed to 
Minneapolis where he has since resided. In 1885 he was elected 
secretary of the State Horticultural Society, which position he con- 
tinued to occupy for a period of five years. He has devoted 
himself chiefly for the last twenty years to the work of his profes- 
sion, performing his first court work as a stenographer in an im- 
portant trial at Rochester, in the fall of 1873. He is at present one 
of the official reporters of the district court of the fourth judicial 
district which embraces the county of Hennepin and three other 
counties. In church work he has taken an active interest; he was 
for some two years a member of Simpson M. E. Church and super- 
intendent of the Sunday School. Himself, wife, a daughter, Miss 
Ada B., a graduate of the city High School and now a student at 
the State University, and Loyd, his eldest son, are now members 
of Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church. He has contributed to the 
erection and support of numerous sister churches and is interested 
in the success of the Fowler Church and especially in "Twin City 
Methodism." 



FRANKLIN MARSHALL RULE 

Franklin Marshall Rule was born in Lewisburgh, Va., April 
20, 1845. He went with his parents to Indiana, in 1859, anc * came 
to Minnesota in 1883. His education began under special teachers 
at home, there being no public schools in Virginia at that time. 
He attended the public schools of Indiana, received an academic 



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training under Prof., W. A. Moore, of Earlham College, studied 
Greek with Prof. Philander Wiley, D. D., of Asbury University, 
and gave two years to the study of medicine. He taught two 
years in the public schools of Indiana, and was principal of Trans- 
itville Institute two years. He entered the Northwest Indiana 




FRANKLIN MARSHALL RULE 



Conference in 1868, and has served the following charges: Cam- 
den, Rossville, Ninth Street, LaFayette, Michigan City, Rochester, 
South Bend, Indiana; Northfield, Pipestone, Marshall, and Thir- 
teenth Avenue, Minneapolis, where he is located at the present 
time. He has been for three years State Secretary of the Chau- 
tauqua System of Education. In all his charges he has been very 



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successful. He combines good preaching ability with practical pas- 
toral work. He mingles among the people like a commoner. His 
sermons have thought enough for the gravest, and spirit enough 
for the most fervid. He is perfectly at home in the pulpit, and his 
church is always filled to hear his stirring, instructive and eloquent 
words. 




WILLIS G. C ALDER WOOD 

WILLIS G. CALDERWOOD 

Willis G. Calderwood, the sublect of this sketches an energetic 
worker in the field of Christian labor which he has chosen, and 
since his identification with the church in Minneapolis, in 1892, has 
made his service as valuable as faithful, concientious attention to 
duty could. 

He first joined the Simpson Church, but was shortly afterward 
requested to take charge of the Sabbath School in the Minnehaha 



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Church, in which capacity he served a year, at the end of which 
time he was compelled by circumstances to resign the work. From 
Minnehaha he transferred his membership to First Church, where 
he found opportunity for labor waiting him. 

Sabbath school and prohibition work have taken his chief 
attention and he has been instrumental in the organization and 
maintenance of several societies which have for their object the 
destruction of the legalized saloon. 

Mr. Calderwood is a native of Wisconsin, born in 1866. His 
father, John Calderwood, a native of Scotland, is a retired minister 
of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and his mother is of 1620 
Puritan stock. His wife, Alice, the daughter of Rev. Charles C ox, 
a Wesleyan Methodist minister, is an earnest, though a retiring- 
woman, of unusual Christian grace, and an efficient co-worker with 
her husband. 

THOMAS ASBURA HARRISON 

Thomas Asbury Harrison, son of Thomas and Margaret Har- 
rison, was born near Belleville, Illinois, December 18, 181 1. His 
father was an elder in the M. E. Church, and for many years 
preached twice a week. The family moved to Belleville in 1803 
in order to get away from a part of the country were the only badge 
of respectabilitv was the ownership of slaves. 

Young Harrison's early education was meagre, being chiefly 
attained at a private school at Belleville. So apt was he, however, 
and so great were his diligence and application, that during the 
latter part of his school life he was made the teacher of his classes. 
Upon reaching his majority he went into the milling business with 
his father and brothers and built the first Harrison mill in Illinois. 
This was mainly accomplished by means of borrowed money, and 
but a short time after it was finished, and while full of wheat and 
flour, it was consumed by fire, entailing an almost total loss as there 
was no insurance on either the mill or its contents. Such a catas- 
trophe would have overwhelmed a man of weaker character, but 
with Mr Harrison it was but a spur to renew r ed efforts, and the mill 
was at once rebuilt, Mr. Harrison working as a day laborer in 



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order to save one man's wages. For some years the mills were 
run at but little above living expenses, and for a time at a positive 
loss, but the extra quality of the production, and the out-breaking 
of the Crimean war, eventually changed this state of affairs, and 
the foundation of the Harrison fortune was laid. The firm prospered 




THOMAS ASBURY HARRISON 

for a number of years, and only sold out at a time when, in Mr. 
Harrison's judgment, the business was beginning to wane. That 
he was right in this opinion was confirmed by the ill-fortune of his 
successor, whose failure may be partly accounted for, however, 
from the facts that he was compelled to hire four men to do the 
work that by Mr. Harrison had been done alone. 



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In i860 Mr. Harrison took a permanent residence in Minne- 
apolis, where his brother had established himself some years pre- 
viously. The severity of the first winter almost persuaded him to 
return to the South at the first opportunity, but with the approach 
of spring he determined to remain as first planned. One of Mr. 
Harrison's first enterprises in Minneapolis was the buying of a 
piece of neighboring ground for which he had no use, a fence 
which obstructed his view, and which the owner persisted on main- 
taining, being his only reason for the purchase. The deal proved 
to be advantageous, however, for the subsequent rise in the value 
of that property alone gave him an independent fortune. His first 
investment of importance in Minnesota was in the First National 
Bank of St. Paul, and, later, he became a heavy stockholder in, and 
a director of both the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the St. 
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroads. In 1862 he and his broth- 
ers built Harrison Hall, the first substantial modern structure in 
Minneapolis, and the beginning of the era of substantial building 
in that city. In 1863 he and his brothers, H. G. Harrison and Wm. 
M. Harrison, entered a partnership with Joseph Dean & Co., 
which for many years was the largest and most important lumber 
firm in the city, and under whose management the Atlantic & Pac- 
ific Mills were built. 

When the civil war broke out, Mr. Harrison, who had been a 
close student of its underlying causes, and who had a strong sym- 
pathy for the Union, turned over thousands of dollars to the govern- 
ment, and, at first, without so much as a scrap of paper to show for it. 
He realized, however, that the government must first be saved cr 
all his earnings of a life time would be useless. It was by accident 
that Mr. Harrison became connected with the State National 
Bank of which he was subsequently president, and whose liabili- 
ties, though he was under no obligations to do so, he paid out of 
his own pocket. He had loaned a friend some money, taking as 
security the stock of this bank, whose affairs he learned later were 
in a most doubtful shape. After much anxious consideration he 
decided to part with the fruits of several years of anxious toil 
and pay off every creditor of the bank. He then organized the 
Security Bank of which he was made president, and which under 



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his careful management achieved a phenomenal prosperity, being 
to-day one of the strongest financial institutions in Minneapolis. 
That is in no small degree due to Mr. Harrison's watchful care and 
the confidence in which he was held Dy the people, and the effici- 
ent corps of assistants that he gathered around him. He con- 
tinued as president of this bank until his death. 




RESIDENCE OF MRS. SARAH H, KNIGHT 



In the year of 1839. at Belleville, 111., Mr. Harrison was united 
in marriage to Rebecca Greene, an educated and highly accomp- 
lished woman, a loving wife and willing helpmeet. She died Feb- 
ruary 14, 1884. Five children, two sons and three daughters, were 
born of this union, of whom W. W. Harrison, Mrs. S. H. Knight 
and Mrs. Dr. E. B. Zier are now living. Above all else Mr. Har- 
rison was one to whom others would look for guidance and direc- 
tion. Moreover, though a most enterprising and valuable citizen, 



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he never seemed able to realize his own importance, each token or 
mark of esteem accorded him being ever a surprise. Of most 
generous disposition he neglected no public enterprise, while his 
liberality towards those who applied to him for aid was proverbial. 
As a member of the Hennepin Avenue Church he was always 








MRS. T. A. HARRISON 

eager to promote its interests. His donations to all churches and 
schools were frequent and liberal. For Hamline University his 
affection was deep and abiding, and many struggling students were, 
through him, enabled to obtain an education. 

His death was directly attributed to the marlarial fever, which 
he contracted in 1885 while traveling in the South. The most 



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skillful physicians in the country were consulted but the evil was 
never entirely eradicated and he was contemplating a winter in 
California when the end came, October 27, 1887. Mr. Harrison's 
most conspicuous traits weie unflinching integrity in all relations 
of life, a sound judgment and an indomitable will. Added to these, 
however, were kindness of heart, a cheerful spirit, and a ready 
sympathy. His character compelled at once the respect and love 
of all, and his memory will be long and gratefully cherished by the 
city whose good fortune is so largely due to him. 

REV. WILLIAM EDWARD HILL. A. M. 

Rev. William Edward Hill wasboi n October 12, 1858, inVanwei t, 
Ohio. He comes from Methodist stock, his father and grandfather 
having been ministers of the gospel. He was converted at the age 
of eleven, and at this time was impressed that he should enter the 
ministry. He attempted to shake off this early impression but 
could not free himself from the hand of God which firmly held him. 
His early education was acquired in the public schools. He sub- 
sequently pursued a course in the Ohio State Normal University. 
In his attempt to silence "the still small voice" that summoned him 
to the work of the Master he learned a trade, but not satisfied, fol- 
lowed the profession of school teaching. He then became a clerk, 
book-keeper, and traveling agent, but in all these vocations, the 
Divine call seemed more and more imperative. In 1884 he sur- 
rendered fully to God and gave himself up to the ministry of Christ. 

Providence seemed to lead him into the West and in the spring 
of 1^85 he found himself upon a large and unpromising circuit in 
Washington Territory, but his zeal, courage and rare executive 
ability were equal to the emergency and he soon built up order out of 
chaos. Under his preaching, a revival wave swept over his charge 
and at every point the membership was greatly increased and the 
church strengthened. At the principal point where the members 
worshipped in a Presbyterian church, the congregation and mem- 
bership so greatly increased that within a few months after his 
appointment to the charge a new church was built. While in 
Washington Territory he was appointed principal of the Normal 



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department of the Lewiston College, 
jjntoi&* also Superintendent of schools of the 

JUF Nez Perces Indian Agency, at the 

jHHF . % t same timeserving the church as pastor 

f at Lewiston, Idaho. 

He was transferred by Bishop 
Foster to the Central Ohio Conference 
in 1887. After serving as pastor one 
year he felt the need of fuller prepara- 
tions for his life work and spent three 
years at the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
Since then he has served important 
charges in his Conference, and is at 
present pastor at Elmore, Ohio. He is 
known among his brethren as a revivalist. His whole ministry 
has been signally owned and honored of God. Although but a 
young man, hundreds have been converted under his ministry. He 
is especially able as a preacher of the Word which he handles 
with the skill of a specialist. He stands squarely for the "faith 
once delivered to the saints" and has never allowed himself to drift 
on the tide of a popular or so called "progressive theology." He 
is flat footed and square toed in his orthodoxy and preaches the 
truths of the Gospel without cant or caviling. 

In 1887 he was married to Miss Alice Dukes, of Findlay, Ohio, 
a lady whose consecration, tact, and general accomplishments par- 
ticularly qualify her for the great work with which she is identified. 



REUBEN RAYNER LANGRELL 

Reuben Rayner Langrell was born in Ottowa, Canada. He 
was converted when a boy and united with the church at the age 
of fifteen. His early education was acquired in the public schools, 
where by rare diligence he qualified himself for the activities of 
subsequent life. In the spring of 1888 he moved to St. Paul. Up- 
on reaching this city, he identified himself with the Central 
Park Methodist Church. Upon thus connecting himself, he did 



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not shrink back into a corner and wait to be sought out, complain- 
ing of the absence of social life in the church, but went to the front, 
made himself known, participated in all the public services and 
identified himself with every line of Christian work. He was soon 
made director of the choir and chorister of the Sunday school, 




REUBEN RAYNER LANGRELL 



Epworth League, and prayer meeting. His work in this capacity 
was greatly appreciated. He came to Minneapolis to live early in 
August, 1894, where he became identified with the Fowler Church 
of which he is an earnest and active member. Mr. Langrell is the 
assistant state manager of the Banker's Alliance which is the 
leading insurance company on the Pacific coast. 



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CLINTON E. OLMSTEAD 

Clinton E. Olmstead was born May 3, 1849, m LaSalle County 
Illinois. His parents were native born Americans, thoroughly 
patriotic and set for the defense of truth and righteousness. His 
mother was a life-long Methodist and by her consistent example 
gave herself to the task of developing the son in Christian life. 
Doubtless the lessons received from her pure lips have been the 
moulding influence of his eventful career. His early days were 
spent on the farm where he developed a powerful physical frame 
and also learned by hard experience the true dignity of labor. 

When the war broke out he was all ablaze with love of 
country. The shot on Sumter pierced his heart and aroused every 
power of his young manhood in resentment. His parents plead 
with him in vain to remain at home, for he was a mere boy but 
sixteen years of age, but so intense was his patrotism that in a 
moment of great excitement he slipped away and became a volun- 
teer soldier in the Thirty-ninth Regiment of the Illinois Infantry. 
His burning ambition for the wild excitement of battle was not to 
be disappointed for he soon found himself at the bloody front. He 
engaged in fourteen hard battles, was at the seige of Petersburg 
and distinguished himself for valor and patriotism. After eleven 
months of field life he returned to his home and resumed work up- 
on the farm. 

At the age of twenty he was married to Miss Helen Linsday, 
the daughter of one of the most prominent lawyers of Marseilles, 
Illinois. In 187 1 he came to Minnesota and took up a homestead 
where he remained for three years, removing to Minneapolis in 

1883. 

He at once engaged in the real estate and loan business 
and although surrounded by the shrewdest business men, he soon 
became known for his great business ability. He was not long in 
gaining for himself a place in the rivalries of trade. Others have 
failed in business or been compelled, by the pressure of the times, 
to suspend, but his offices in Temple Court are still open and he 
stands in the front rank of one of the most prosperous and pro- 
gressive lines of business in the city. 



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Mr. Olmstead is a strong, robust, honest, straightforward, 
manly man; he is a sincere Christian and a genuine Methodist. 
He is all aglow with zeal and love for the Church. He believes 
that Methodism represents the greatest evangelistic power in the 
world. 




CLINTON E. OLMSTEAD 

He has been fully indentirled with the church since coming to 
Minneapolis. He first united with the Foss Church and then when 
he saw a ray of light shining through an open door on Forest 
Heights, he at once seized the opportunity and declared it was 
God's call for a Methodist church. 



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The first prayer meeting was held in a secluded hall which 
was lighted with a lamp carried by Mr. Olmstead from his home. 
Mr. Olmstead was appointed leader as soon as the church was or- 
ganized and he has occupied this position with great honor to him- 
self and church ever since. When standing before his class he 
seems like one rilled with the spirit of the fathers. He exhorts, 
reproves, rebukes, strikes at sin, pleads for deeper consecration 
and urges the people into a richer Christian experience. Although 
a zealous member of the Forest Heights Church, he believes in 
Minneapolis Methodism and is all the while working for the en- 
largement of our common borders. 

He was one of the first trustees of Fow r ler Church and has as- 
sisted it by deed as well as word. He has the courage of his con- 
victions in all things and when he once takes a position he stands 
as immovable as a basaltic rock. He is always cheerful and 
genial, interested in the success of all who are worthy, and de- 
lights in responding to every opportunity to elevate, dignify and 
ennoble the world in which he lives. 

B. F. STAHL 

Among the well known men who have gained both prominence 
and position in the great Northwest, is Mr. B. F. Stahl, manager 
of Northwestern General Agency of the old Aetna Life Insurance 
Co. Born in Ohio, September 21, 1838, Mr. Stahl received the 
benefits of a liberal education, and was afterwards admitted to the 
bar, and practiced law in Ohio for a number of years. Giving his 
attention largely to laws governing insurance interests, he became 
so proficient in that branch of jurisprudence, that his services were 
sought by a number of old line insurance companies, and he was 
induced finally, to relinquish his legal practice, and enter the ser- 
vices of the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford,. Conn., as 
general traveling agent of the State of New York. This posi- 
tion was filled so creditably that the company soon made Mr. Stahl, 
its manager for the Northwest, with headquarters in St. Paul. 
Coming to St. Paul in December, 1885, the subject of this sketch 
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ranks second in the list of the company's general agencies. Con- 
versant with every detail of the business, and thoroughly familiar 
with legal and general insurance technicalities, he has exhibited 
splendid abilities as a manager, and is to-day the acknowledged 
peer of any man in the insurance field. With untiring energy and 
comprehensive grasp, he seized upon an hitherto undeveloped ter- 



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ritory, and has made it a very garden spot for the company he rep- 
resents. 

Mr. Stahl's prominence in the insurance world is shown in the 
fact that in 1890 he was elected to the presidency of the Minnesota 
Life Underwriters' Association, an office to which he was re-eltct- 
ed at the last annual meeting, without a dissenting vote. At the 
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Detroit, Mich., in June, 189;:, he was made a member of the execu- 
tive committee of that association, a compliment as creditable to 
the Minnesota association as to the worthy recipient. 

But it is not in the insurance world alone that Mr. Stahl has 
achieved prominence; since it is known every where that he is one 
of the most conspicious figures of the Knights of Pythias fraternity 
in the entire Northwest. At the seventeenth session of the order, 
held in St. Paul in September, 1889, ne was elected Grand Chan- 
cellor, giving to the order the first business administration it had 
ever known in this grand jurisdiction. Inaugurating needed re- 
forms, and correcting many abuses that had crept into the order, 
his administration was conducted on a purely business basis, and 
marked by the most brilliant success throughout. In 1890 Mr. 
Stahl was appointed a member of Major General Carnahan's staff, 
with rank of Colonel, a position which he holds to-day. 

Although not in active practice, Mr. Stahl is a member of the 
St. Paul bar, and is honored as a well-read lawyer, thorough practi- 
tioner, and sterling business man. Lawyer, knight, gentleman, as 
he is, Mr. Stahl is held in high esteem by all who know him, and 
as an insurance man, stands at the head of the list in this State. 

Himself and wife are actively identified with the Central Park 
Church. 

REV. CARL A. ANDERSON 

Rev. Carl Axel Anderson is a splendid example of what pluck and 
perseverance can do in securing a liberal education. He was born 
in Gottenberg, Sweden, August 6, 1859, an ^ emigrated with his 
parents to America at six years of age. His early life was spent 
on the farm near Detroit, Michigan, and from a child he was 
accustomed to severe manual labor. Upon the death of his mother, 
a noble Christian woman, at the tender age of fourteen he left 
home to make his own way in the world. The difficulties he en- 
countered would have disheartened a less heroic soul. In the first 
place, he knew but little English, his education consisting of what 
he had learned in a six weeks term in a country school. Hard 
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gave him the appearance of a bov ten 
or eleven years old. His diminutive 
size made it difficult for him to rind 
employment, but once having found 
work his faithfulness and energ\ secured 
more openings than he could fill. 

The one thought that towered 
above all others in his mind was his 
a *■ desire for an education. The first winter 

^■^^ spent awav from home he attended a 

PI - * ^ country school for four months. Work- 

ing on the farm summers, and doing 
chores for his board winters, he pur- 
sued his studies with the zeal of an 
enthusiast. In two years he mastered 
the common branches and entered the classical course of the High 
School in Lapeer. Michigan. This course was completed in Cleve- 
land. O., four years later. In the fall of 1882. Mr. Anderson, 
matriculated in the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., 
and in three years graduated in the classical course. 

After acting as a supply in Michigan during the summer of 
1885, Mr. Anderson entered the school of theology, of Boston 
University in September. From this historic institution he graduat- 
ed with credit in 1S88. 

In the summer of iSSS Mr. Anderson married Miss Emeline 
A. Hornsbv, of Cleveland. O.. a grandchild in the fourth genera- 
tion of the immortal John Bunyan. She is the constant and tire- 
less assistant of her husband in all his labors. In the fall of the 
same year he joined the Ohio Conference. After three years of 
faithful work, the failure of his health compelled him to seek 
another climate. Accordingly he came to Minnesota two years 
ago in search of health. Finding the climate favorable, he trans- 
ferred in the fall of 1892, to the Minnesota Conference, and was 
stationed at Moorhead. 

Mr. Anderson has been successful from the first: revivals have 
uniformly attended his ministry. His success in Moorhead, was 
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and esteem of all classes. The president of one of the educational 
institutions of that city said, in speaking of his work: "It is simply 
wonderful what this } T oung man has done since he came among us. 
If his most sanguine supporters had prophesied such results as he 
has achieved, I could not have believed it." A prominent business 
man of that place said: '-Mr. Anderson has done more than any 
three preachers ever did in Moorhead, in the same length of time." 

Mr. Anderson is a magnetic speaker and a faithful pastor. 
His bearing is easy and his manner of speaking is simple and direct; 
he has a clear and penetrating voice, and reaches all classes by the 
breadth of his sympathy. His methods of church work are modern 
and progressive; he preaches on living topics and his sermons are 
fresh and original in thought. He gives promise of increasing 
usefulness. At the last Conference he was appointed pastor at 
Waseca. 

REV. GEORGE ROBSON HAIR, A. M. 

George Robson Hair was born in the city of Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, England, December 6, 1825, of Methodist parents, his 
ancestry and family being Weslevan; his father sustained official 
relations in the church for many vears and his grandfather was one 
of Wesley's class leaders, connected with the "Old Orphan House." 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, the third preaching place built by Wesley in 
Great Britain. 

He received his education at Bell's Academy in his native city, 
and studied Theology under Rev. Nathan Rouse, an able polemic 
divine and preacher, and the author of several theological and con- 
troversial works: he received an exhorter's license in 1844, and 
was licensed as a local preacher in 1845, and as such filled regular 
Sabbath appointments for several vears in his native land. 

In 185 1 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Selina Davison, his 
present wife, second daughter of Rev. Edward Davison, deceased. 
Coming to this countrv in the spring of 1854 preached for nine 
months with the Weslevan Methodists and was ordained Elder in 
the city of Albany, N. Y., in 1855. In the spring of 1856 he united 
with the Wyoming Annual Conference and served the following 
charges the constitutional term; Lisle and Whitney's Point; Wind- 



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sor; Lanesboro; Orwell; LeRaysville; Gibson; Kingston; and 
Waverly, N. Y. In 1873 he was appointed presiding elder of the 
Wyoming District by Bishop Ames, which he served the disciplinary 
four years. In 1877 he received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from LaFayette College, Penn. He was transferred to the Minne- 
sota Conference in 1879 b }' Bishop Peck, and his appointments in 
this Conference have been as follows: Northfield; presiding elder 
of the Red River District, and first Superintendent of the North 




GEO. ROBSON HAIR, A. M. 

Dakota Mission, and presiding elder of the Fargo District; Owa- 
tonna; Mankato; presiding elder of the Mankato District for the 
full term of six years; North Church, Minneapolis and Glencoe. 

REV. CHARLES H. PAYNE, D. D., LL. D. 

Rev. Dr. Charles H. Payne is a native of Taunton, Mass. 
When Charles was but a child, his father died and he was there- 
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tion was in the public schools of Massachusetts, in which schools 
also he taught for some years; he prepared for college in East 
Greenwich Academy, R. I., was graduated from the Wesleyan 
University of Middletown, Conn., and studied theology at the Con- 
cord Biblical Institute, now the Boston School of Theology. 




CHAS. H. PAYNE, D. D. 



Dr. Payne entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in the New England Southern Conference in 1857, in which 
year he was also married. After serving several churches success- 
fully in that Conference, at Sandwich, East Bridgewater, Fall River 
and Providence, he was transferred to Brooklyn, where he suc- 
ceeded Dr. C. D. Foss, now Bishop Foss, as pastor of what is now 
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during Dr. Payne's pastorate and largely through his agency. He 
was then transferred to Philadelphia, where he served successively 
the two strongest churches of Methodism in that city, Arch street 
and Spring Garden street, building the Arch Street Church during 
his pastorate. Then he became pastor of St. Paul's Church, Cin- 
cinnati, which he served until his inauguration as president of the 
Ohio Wesleyan University in 1876. Remaining president of that 
institution for twelve years, he was elected to his present office as 
Secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in 1888. During the twelve years of his presidency of the 
Ohio Wesleyan University that institution had a wonderful growth, 
increasing the number of students from 323 to nearly 1000. 

During all the years of his pastorate, Dr. Payne was his own 
evangelist, conducting revival services which always attended his 
ministry, and thousands were converted in those years of pastoral 
service. When president of the University he carried the same 
spirit and efforts into that institution and personally conducted 
revival services with the students and saw more than 1000 of the 
noblest young men and women of the country consecrate them- 
selves to Christ under his labors in that institution. These men 
and women are occupying prominent pulpits and missionary posts 
the world over to-day. 

Dr. Payne has been a wide traveler, having made three trips 
abroad, in which he visited Europe, Egypt, Syria, Palestine and 
Greece. He is also an author whose works have wide circulation, 
not onlv in this country, but in England and Canada. "Guides and 
Guards in Character Building," a series of sermon lectures to 
young men, has had a very wide sale, and abundant evidence has 
been furnished that large numbers of youth have been led to Christ 
through its perusal. It was placed in the first reading course 
adopted by the Ep worth League and is still having a large and 
constant sale. 

He is a recognized leader in all forward movements and genuine 
reforms in Church and State, being an earnest temperance advo- 
cate, and an ardent advocate of justice to the colored men and all 
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addressing audiences throughout the whole country, and thus reaches 
hundreds of thousands of people. 

THOMAS BARLOW WALKER 

Thomas Barlow Walker, manufactuer and philanthropist, was 
born in Zonia, Greene county, Ohio, February i, 1840; the second 
son and third child of Piatt Bayliss and Anstis Barlow Walker. The 
Walkers were of English stock, who settled during the early his- 
tory of the country in New Jersey, his father leaving that state early 
in life for New York. The Barlows were also of sturdy parent- 
age, his maternal grandfather being the Hon. Thomas Barlow, of 
New York, and two of his uncles were for many years judges, 
Thomas in New York and Moses in Ohio. His father died en- 
route to California, in 1849, an ^ his mother was left to struggle 
with adversity with her four young children. From his ninth until 
his sixteenth year Thomas led the usual careless life of the average, 
frontier village boy. He was expert with the rifle, shotgun and at 
the game of checkers. 

At sixteen the family removed to Berea, Ohio, where better 
educational advantages were possible, and where Thomas' boyhood 
abruptly ended and earnest life began. From sixteen to nineteen 
his time was divided between work and study. After various busi- 
ness adventures, always attended with hard work, and generally 
with success, he returned to his books and studies, and the next 
winter taught a district school in the adjoining township where he 
had about sixty pupils, among whom were eight school teachers 
some of them much older then he. 

About this time the war broke out, and with his associate 
students in the Baldwin University he volunteered as a soldier. 
Having failed to get sent to the front he, after waiting several 
months and while in search of employment, landed in St. Paul, and 
the next morning took the train to the city of Minneapolis. 

On December 19, 1863, he was married to Harriet G., young- 
est daughter of the Hon. Fletcher Hulet. Dating from his mar- 
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first vears were years of hardship, self-denial, and patient toil. 
The summer of 1863 was spent in railroading, after which for some 
years he gave his whole time to government surveys. In 1868 he 
began his venture in pine lands. As a consequence of his foresight, 
Mr. Walker to-day owns more valuable pine lands than any other 




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man in the northwest. In connection with these surveys and pine 
land enterprises, Mr. Waiker has been, and is yet, extensively 
engaged throughout various sections of the northwest in the manu- 
facture of lumber. 

Mr. Walker is extremely liberal in the use of his wealth for 
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able work. Mr. Walker's whole life has been greatly moulded 
and influenced by reading the books of public libraries, beginning 
with the private library of Father Blake, Catholic priest. Through 
Mr. Walker's influence and efforts the Athenaeum Library was 
greatly improved. The reading room was enlarged, an assistant 
employed and hours lengthened. The library was also opened on 
Sunday and the membership increased by allowing payment by 
installments. Mr. Walker purchased several hundred member- 




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ship certificates, which he kept loaned out among his employees 
and others. In the rapid growth of the city he foresaw the 
demand for a library that should meet all the wants of our 
mixed population, and be free to all. At the same time it seemed 
necessary to maintain two separate libraries and duplicate the 
valuable stock of books now in the Athenaeum. Mr. Walker 
proposed that the, city by taxation, establish a free library upon 
condition that the citizens contribute a certain large sum towards 
the erection of the building, and that the Athenaeum, the Academy 
of Science, and the Fine Art Society, be given space in the build- 



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ino- in consideration of which the books of the Athenaeum Li- 
brary were to circulate upon the same terms as those of the public 
library, and to be drawn in the same manner. This was agreed 
to, necessary legislation secured, and Mr. Walker was the first to 
subscribe to the library fund. When the beautifully designed 
building was completed, Mr. Walker saw the realization of his 
desire for many years. The rapid growth of this institution for 
the five years which have now passed since it was first formally 
opened, makes its standing in circulation fourth among the public 
libraries of the country. 

The perfect harmony of action between the two boards of the 
Library and Athenaeum, and the pride of the citizens in it, are the 
best possible witnesses to the wisdom of the board, and liberal policy 
inaugurated by Mr. Walker. He has been annually elected presi- 
dent of the Library board from its organization in 1885 to the 
present time, 1894. The liberal provision for art in this building 
is also due to Mr Walker's interest in, and devotion to it. From its 
"inception he has been a staunch friend and supporter of the art 
school, which has taken so high a rank among the educational in- 
terests of the city, and among the art schools of the country. On 
the walls of the spacious gallery he has placed samples of nearly 
all of his own private collection. 

The art gallery at his home has been pronounced the choicest 
collection of art treasures for its size in the United States, and is 
open to the public on all days but Sunday, a liberality highly es- 
teemed and appreciated both by citizens and strangers. The fame 
of this gallery has gone throughout the nation, and even to Europe, 
and many are the expressions of surprise from Eastern connois- 
seurs over the unlooked-for treasures displayed upon its walls. Mr 
Walkers home library consists of a large and carefully chosen col- 
lection of choice books. 

When Mr. Walker constructed his present residence, in 1874, 
his large lawn was thrown open without a fence. This innovation 
has now become the custom adopted by a large portion of the 
citizens of Minneapolis. The benches placed around the lawn 
under the trees are occupied free by all classes of people during 
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is another institution much indebted to Mr. Walker's interest and 
patronage for its past support and present fortunate situation, for 
through his influence, when the library building was designed, the 
needs and importance of this association were considered and spa- 
cious and beautiful apartments were assigned to them. For several 
years Mr. Walker w r as a member of the board of managers of the 
State Reform School, where he made his strong practical business 
habits felt, and inaugurated many valuable changes, as well as be- 
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It was especially through the efforts of Mr. Walker that the 
Minneapolis Business Union was organized, which has been a lead- 
ing factor in building up the business interests of the city both in 
the line of manufacturing and wholesale trade. Mr. Walker was 
elected president of the Union, which is composed of the wealthiest 
and most influential men of the city, and he has devoted a large 
part of his time as well as a large amount of money for the benefit 
of the city. 

He is the head of the Minneapolis Land and Investment Com- 
pany. Mr. Walker was for many years president of the Flour 
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of which he is president, constructed the central city market, which 
was probably the finest market building in the United States. 

In politics Mr. Walker has always been a radical republican, 
believing in a sufficient protective tariff to hold our money at home: 
to build up our manufactories for the employment of our work- 
men. He is an official member of the Hennepin Avenue Church. 
Through much doubt and questioning, he has wrought his way up 
to a clear religious faith, a firm belief in the Bible as the rule of 
man's conduct, and the only safe foundation on which either men 
or nations can build. He has also taken pains to ground his grow- 
ing children in the faith to which he has attained only by tiresome 
research. He has been the constant director of the education of 
his eight children, as well as their daily and close companion. From 
their earliest years the}' have been supplied with tools and machin- 
ery and shops, which have given the manual dexterity and practical 
knowledge of applied mathematics, for lack of which a large per- 
centage of men are at a disadvantage all their lives. As a result, 
the boys, while yet in their early years, became expert in the use 
of tools, and their beautifully outfitted shops form no inconsider- 
able part of their home. Remembering his own boyhood, Mr. 
Walker has encouraged the boys in all out of door amusements, 
especially hunting, which he has shared with them. 

MRS. HARRIET GRANGER WALKER 

Harriet Granger Walker was born in Brunswick, O., Sep- 
tember 10, 1841, youngest daughter of Hon. Fletcher and Fanny 
Hulet, natives of Berkshire County, Mass. Her grandfather, 
John Hulet, of Lee, Mass., played a distinguished part in the battle 
of Bunker Hill, and her great grandfather, also John Hulet, built 
the first Methodist church in Berkshire county, if not in the state 
of Massachusetts. When Harriet was six years of age her parents 
removed to Berea, O., where she attended the Baldwin University. 
At eleven years of age, she united with the Methodist church, to 
which her family belonged and with which she has been prominently 
identified ever since, being a member of Hennepin Avenue Church 
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her girlhood ambition to write a book. During her school days she 
was a regular contributor to several periodicals. 

On December 19, 1863, she was married to Thomas B. 
Walker, her schoolmate and companion since their sixteenth 3 7 ear. 
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during the first twelve years of their married life, Mrs. Walker 
devoted herself exclusively to her home and family cares, while her 
husband laid the foundation of his later business success. Mrs. 
Walker's work of public philanthrophy began some twenty years 
ago, and to-day she is actively associated with most of the leading 
charities of Minneapolis, many of which she has been instrumental 



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in organizing and maintaining with money and hard work. Out- 
side her immediate church work, she, for the past nineteen years, 
has been the secretary of Bethany Home for the reformation of 
fallen women. The city authorities make it appropriations from 
the public funds. The Northwestern Hospital for women and 
children was organized by her about twelve years ago, and she is 
its president. It is under the sole management of women directors, 
and has a training school for nurses with women physicians. It 
owns one of the finest hospital buildings in the Northwest. 

Mrs. Walker brought together from the four leading Christian 
organizations of the city the Woman's Christian Association, the 
Sisterhood of Bethany, and the two branches of the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union, a joint committee who induced the 
police commissioners of Minneapolis to create the position of police 
matron and to allow this committee the nomination of the incum- 
bent by the payment of half her salary. She had visited and inves- 
tigated the workings of matrons, or the want of matrons, in Boston, 
New York,W ashington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleve- 
land, Chicago and Milwaukee, writing extensively on the subject. 

She was one of the first to take up the work of the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union. When that organization took up 
the political issue, however, she was for many years shut out from 
the work. Upon the division of the Union, she joined the Non- 
Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union and took an active 
part in temperance again. She now holds the responsible positions 
of national vice-president and state president of the non-partisan 
organization, in each of which capacities her genius finds full play. 
In 1892 Mrs. Walker was elected president of a new organization 
called the Woman's Council, a delegate representative association 
of all branches of woman's work in Minneapolis. To her capable 
leadership is unquestionably due the astonishing growth and pros- 
perity of this body. Seventy associations are represented, cover- 
ing all departments of thought, study and work in the fields of 
education, philanthropy, reform, medicine, art, music, the church, 
literature, history and science. The Woman's Council now pub- 
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The Newsboy's Home is another charity to which Mrs. 
Walker's active influence has been lent; the Kindergarten Associa- 
tion has had her interest and support, and also the Children's 
Home, which was an out-growth of Bethany Home. 

Mrs. Walker is equally active in her private charities. So 
much of her time is now required in the giving of advice and help 
to the unfortunate, that she has been obliged to institute regular 
office hours and to employ a stenographer to carry on her cor- 
respondence. In all her work she enjovs the loving and admiring 
support of her devoted husband, whose example as well as counsel 
has been such an inspiration to her work. She is also an earnest 
advocate of woman's suffrage. 

Her lectures written for the Nurses' Training School, Christ- 
ian Endeavor Society, and temperance work have been published 
and very widely copied and quoted. Several articles discussing 
and endorsing the Keeley Cure for inebriety, one of which was 
read at the World's Temperance Congress in Chicago during the 
World's Fair have been reprinted and largely circulated. She is a 
regular contributor to the Trained Nurse's Magazine of New York, 
and to the Temperance Tribune, of which she is chairman of the 
publication committee. 

Through all her active life however, Mrs. Walker's home 
duties ha ye always been foremost. Her husband and eight children 
have been given precedence over every other demand, and when 
her devotion to her large family, her care of her elegant home with 
its beautiful art gallery, and the large number of guests who enjoy 
the hospitality of that home are considered, it seems phenomenal 
that so large an amount of outside work could have been accom- 
plished. Mrs. Walker has refused to give her time to society ; her 
evenings are given to her family; yet among the women of the city 
of Minneapolis there is no other one more widely beloved and 
respected. 

JOSEPH DEAN 

Joseph Dean was born of Scotch-Irish parentage, January 10 
1826, near Enniskillen, Ireland. When Mr. Dean was about six 
years old, the family emigrated to Canada, settling near Sherbrook, 



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Province of Quebec. When he was about ten years of age, the 
family again moved, and this time the place of their choice was 
Belvidere, 111., some sixty miles from Chicago. Here Mr. Dean 
passed his boyhood and attained his majority, attending school, 
working on a farm, and learning his trade, that of a carpenter. 




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Soon after he was twenty-one years of age he spent some time in 
Chicago, working at his trade. 

In the spring of 1850 he was married to Miss Nancy H. Stan- 
ley, of Illinois, and almost immediately the young couple moved to 
St. Anthony, then an embitious young town whose identity has 
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busy for two years superintending at his trade. In 1852 he took 
a government claim at what is now Bloomington Ferry, on the Min- 
nesota River, Hennepin county. Here he remained for four years 
farming, and, with a partner, operating a ferry across the river, and 
was postmaster and justice of the peace. 

In 1856 he returned to Minneapolis, settling on the west side 
of the river, and resumed his trade, contracting and building. A 
little later he purchased a planing mill, sash and door factory, 
located at the falls, which he operated for some time. 

Mr. Dean joined the Methodist Church in early life, and to 
the da}' of his death he was an active, interested and loyal Metho- 
dist in the best sense, and what is even more than that, he was a 
Christian. In 1856 the Methodists of Minneapolis, that is those 
living on the west side of the river, decided to build, as they had 
no church building of their own, but were meeting over a store at 
the corner of Washington avenue and Second avenue south. The 
location chosen for the new church was on Oregon street (now 
Third avenue south) between Fourth and Fifth streets. The 
church building was erected under Mr. Dean's charge and super- 
vision, he also working with his own hands. 

Mr. Dean was superintendent of the Sunday School for nearly 
ten years, when he was compelled, by pressing business cares and 
by ill health, to relinquish the work that had been his pride and 
delight. In 1865 he became associated with T. A., Wm. M. and H. G. 
Harrison in the lumber business, under the firm name of J. Dean & 
Co., which firm did a large and active business until 1877. 

In January, 1878, The Secuiity Bank of Minnesota opened its 
doors for business, with T. A. Harrison, president, H. G. Harrison, 
vice-president, and Joseph Dean, cashier. The organization of 
this institution took much of Mr. Dean's time and thought, and to 
the building up of the business of this bank he gave his untiring 
energy. But his work in this direction, coming at a time when he 
surely was entitled to rest, told severely upon his health, and in the 
summer of 1882 he was compelled to sever his active connection 
w r ith the bank, and seek rest and health in travel. His health he 
never regained in any large measure. Those who are acquainted 
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sota is indebted in no small degree for the large success it has at- 
tained to the wise planning and earnest work of Mr. Dean. 

Centenary Church succeeded the little Oregon Street Church 
referred to above. Mr. Dean remained a member of Centenary 
Church until 1875 when Hennepin Avenue Church was organized 
There his membership was held until 1879, wnen moving to an- 
other part of the city, he cast in his lot with Franklin Avenue 
Methodist Church. His membership was there at the time of his 
death. In 1874 ^ lrs - Dean, the devoted wife and mother, was 
called to a better land. In 1S76 Mr. Dean was again married, this 
time to Miss Elizabeth Stevens, of Illinois. She is still living and 
is an active member of Franklin Avenue Methodist Church. Mr. 
Dean died at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, on May 20, 1890. This 
sketch is necessarily meagre and is intentionally plain. It tells 
simply of one who started as a young man with the sole capital of 
a clear head, a strong arm, and a courageous heart, supplemented 
by a firm and abiding trust in God, and bv the companionship, 
sympathy and loving help of one of the best women who ever lived. 
He leaves a name in Minneapolis business and church life that his 
children will ever lovingly cherish 

HOBART O. HAMLIN 

Hobart O. Hamlin is remembered as an upright, successful, 
business man, a loyal and enthusiastic citizen of Minneapolis, and 
as an unostentatious but active participant in things benevolent and 
Christian. He was born at Salem, Wayne County, Penn., June 
29, 1832, and died in Minneapolis on July 21, 1886. He was the 
son of Oliver Hamlin, a prosperous merchant. Like many others, 
he came west partly in consideration of his health. 

In 1854 ^ e arrived at the village of St. Anthony, and for a 
while was engaged in the store of Mr. Stanchlield as a clerk. 
During the fall of 1856 he formed a partnership with Alphens 
Rowell and opened a store for the sale of general merchandise. 

This proved to be an unfortunate venture, for the new firm 
had hardly become established before the panic of 1857 swept the 
country, and they were forced to make an assignment. In the 



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same year he was elected the first auditor of Hennepin county. 
This position he shortly resigned, but in 1861 he was elected clerk 
of the district court, and held the office for the full term of four 
years. This was the extent of Mr. Hamlin's service in public office, 
but he was always much interested in politics, especially in munici- 




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pal affairs, and took an active part as a private citizen in working 
for the nomination of good men. 

When his term as clerk of court expired, Mr. Hamlin became 
associated with the firm of Gale & Co. This connection continued 
for eleven years. In 1877 he formed a partnership with Z. E. Brown 
and engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business, under 



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the name of Hamlin & Brown. They were entirely successful and 
enjoyed the confidence of the business community, as well as of 
mauy correspondents in the East. This partnership continued 
until 1886, when Mr. Brown retired, and the firm became H. O. 
Hamlin & Co., with D. W.Jones and James MacMillan aspartners. 
The business was conducted under this name until Mr. Hamlin's 
death. 




RESIDENCE OF H. 0. HAMLIN 

The prosperity which came to Mr. Hamlin in the real estate 
business afforded him the complete satisfaction felt in success by a 
man who labors faithfully^, but who has higher aims in making 
money than the mere amassing of wealth. It is suggestive of his 
character, that, though he was released by assignment from his 
debts at the time of his failure in 1857, every dollar was subse- 
quently paid. In all his business relations he was known as a man 
of sterling integrity. 



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Mr. Hamlin was married in Minneapolis, on September 28, 
1862, to Miss Anna C. Rockey. The ceremony was performed by 
Rev. J. F.Chaffee. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin began housekeeping in 
a modest way in a small house on Fourth street, near the court 
house. Later he bought a cottage on the bluff near Lowry's. 

They afterwards lived at the corner of Eighth street and Mary 
place, where the First Unitarian Church now stands and subse- 
quently in a house on Hennepin avenue on the site of the Lyceum 
Theatre. They moved to their beautiful home on the corner of 
Hawthorn avenue and Fifteenth street in 1882. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hamlin have had seven children: Anna Mary, Grant G., Oliver C, 
George B., Ernest L., Kate and Hobart O, Jr. Of these Grant, 
Anna and Hobart are not living. 

Mr. Hamlin was one of the organizers of the Hennepin Ave- 
nue M. E. Church, and continued an active member and prominent 
officeholder. His attention to church affairs and Christian benevo- 
lent work was constant and untiring. He gave himself no rest in 
these duties. Sunday was one of the busiest days of the week for 
him. His benevolences were very quietly bestowed. He liked 
better to have no one know what he was doing in this way, than 
to have his name appear conspicuously on a subscription list. A 
gift of $10,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association building 
fund remained for sometime anonymous. Mr. Hamlin was in- 
terested in the Young Men's Christian Association from the begin- 
ning. He was one of its early workers, and president of the 
association for the year 1874-5. 

ANNA C. HAMLIN 

Anna C. Hamlin, daughter of George and Anna Rockey, was 
born February 22, 1839, Lancester County, Pennsylvania. She 
was one of the first Methodists in Minneapolis and perhaps is as 
familiar with the growth and development of our church in this 
city as any other member of the connection. She was converted 
when eleven years of age and united with the church at the age of 
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She came to Minneapolis in 1857 when Minnesota was a ter- 
ritory, and was one of the thirteen members who worshipped in 
Woodman's Hall, under the pastorate of Rev. Mr. St. Claire. She 
was married to Hobart O. Hamlin, September 28, 1862. She talks 
familiary upon the earliest history of Methodism in Minneapolis. 
She was present at the opening of the church built in 1858 




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on Third avenue south. She still remembers and is able to recite 
portions of the sermon preached on that occasion by Dr. Chaffee. 
For years she has been a member of the Hennepin Avenue 
Church. She has never faltered in her faithfulness or devotion to 
the church. Her home is the center of Christian influence and at- 
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Her children have all been brought up "In the nurture and 
admonitoin of the Lord" and exemplify the careful Christian 
training of their mother. We give elsewhere an engraving of her 
home which has always been open to Christian people. It was 
built during the life time of her husband, with special reference 
to the convenience and comfort of his family and the entertainment 
of the host of friends who have always deliglv.ed in visiting it. 

GRANT G. HAMLIN 

Grant G. Hamlin, son of H. O. and Anna C. Hamlin, was 
born August 12, 1865, and died December 16, 1892. In looking 
over his journal we make the following extracts: 

"Was converted on the evening of January 7, 1881, at my 
home, 718 Hennepin avenue, the present situation of the Lyceum 
Theater. 

"January 16, 1881, united with the Hennepin Avenue Church 
on probation. (In old Tabernacle building.) 

"Admitted to full membership December 18, 1881, at new 
Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church. 

"Read the Bible through when twelve years old. 

"Began taking music lessons when twelve years old, and con- 
tinued for six years. 

"Entered High School September r3, age fifteen years. Left 
school November, 1884." 

In 1885 a cough, which had troubled him at times became 
chronic, and for seven years he fought the dread disease, consump- 
tion. For five years he was hopeful of recovery but the two re- 
maining years he looked death steadily in the face, with firm faith 
and triumphant hope in God. 

In writing to his mother he says: "The presence of Jesus lines 
with silver every cloud that crosses my life's path. He is a never 
failing comfort and support. Without Him I could do nothing." 

After his mother had taken the family to Colorado to live on 
account of his health, he was very anxious for the welfare of each 
one and would frequently say: "I sincerely hope and pray that this 



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change may prove of great benefit to all of us. If it should prove 
an injury to any, no one would regret the fact more than myself." 

In a letter written to his parents while they were away from 
home he says: "O, I am so thankful that you so taught and 
guided me that I have learned to love the church as dearly as I do. 




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It has already been an anchor to my soul in times of darkness, and 
I trust will help me through all trying times, that I, with all others 
who live this life, must meet. It is my prayer that this love for 
the church, the visible revelation of God to us, may increase con- 
tinually as the years go by." 



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About a month before he died he said to his mother: "If it 
had been God's will to restore me to health, I would finish my 
education and study theology; as I can not, I trust brother Ernest 
will be the preacher in our family." 

He was always bright and cheerful even when the shadows of 
death were creeping upon him. He loved to talk upon religious 
questions and frequently declared that the great mistake of many 
professing Christians was that they did not accept Christ as a per- 
sonal Savior and consequently failed to receive the full revelation 
of God, to them. 

His sick chamber was a constant benediction to all. His death 
was a triumphant entrance into the presence of the Great King. 

Although he is gone, the sweet fragrance of his life lingers 
as heavenly incense in his home, and his words and deeds are still 
precious to those who knew and learned to love him. 

JAMES BALFOUR BRADSHAW 

James Balfour Bradshaw was born in Ireland in 1865. He 
comes of Methodist stock, his parents having been of the primitive 
type. Their son James was early impressed with his duty to God 
and through these first impressions was saved from the experienc e 
which has characterized so many young men, viz. : sowing wild 
oats. He acquired his education in the National School of Ireland, 
during which time he was an earnest student. 

Upon leaving school he served an apprenticeship in the gro- 
cery business for four years. During this period his natural 
business tact rapidly developed, winning the admiration of his 
employer. When his apprenticeship was completed, he stood so 
well with the proprietor that he was promoted to a salaried posi- 
tion which he occupied with great acceptability for a year and a 
half. During this incumbency Mr. Bradshaw paid strict attention 
to business, familiarizing himself with all its departments and 
phazes, studying human nature as he met it in barter and trade and 
by every possible way qualifying himself for his subsequent career. 
He early learned the lesson so often disregarded, that "economy is 
wealth." He also came to see that "honesty is the best policy" and 



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that "patience and perseverance conquer all things," and through 
the united power of these maxims applied to practical life, he was 
able, after remaining with his employer a year and a half to form a 
partnership with his brother and launch out into business in his own 
name, capital, character and unwearying effort. The new business 




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formed was in the grocery line, which he successfully prosecuted 
for a year. About this time his attention was attracted to this 
country. He had heard of the new world and resolved to see for 
himself and to try life under its better, more inspiring, con- 
ditions. In J 885 he turned his face toward America, stopping in 
Canada where he remained two years, following the grocery 



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business. In 1887 he closed out his interest in Canada and came 
to St. Paul, where he served as an employee in a large grocery 
store for a while, after which he became connected with a whole- 
sale grocery house as traveling salesman, remaining on the road 
for three years. 

During this time his brother and sister came from Ireland and 
joined him in his new life. Having acquired fresh experience as 
traveling agent, he again, in connection wiihhis brother started into 
business for himself in St, Paul. For nearly four years he re- 
mained in this business, building it up from almost nothing to one 
of the largest and most substantial institutions in the entire state. 
In August, 1894, he sold out his business in St. Paul and purchased 
the plant of the Great Northern Soap Co., located in Minneapolis, 
on Nicollet and Twenty-ninth street. In this new enterprise he is 
associated with his brother, who is one of the most successful young 
business men in the northwest. The plant has been in operation 
under this new management long enough to justify expectations 
and to guarantee the greatest success. It is a manufactory in the 
fullest sense of the word. All kinds of laundry and toilet soaps 
are made and with the large market that is open to this line, there 
is no doubt but what the new venture will steadily grow until it 
takes rank with the best of its kind in the country. There is no 
doubt but what this will be the case if honesty, industry, faith, 
pluck, grit and perseverance cut any figure in the success of life. 

Mr. Bradshaw was converted when but a small boy, and at 
once united with the church. He is a real Methodist. He knows 
what it is in its simplicity and power. He was reared under the 
hallowed influence of the Church. His father's house was afavorite 
place of meeting among the Methodists of that community. Class 
meetings were held in it as early as seven o'clock Sunday morning 
and the tires of genuine devotion were never extinguished on the 
family altar. While in Canada he was connected with the Church 
and in St. Paul he was a vigorous worker in the Central Park 
Church. Coming to Minneapolis, together with his brother and 
sister he united with the Fowler Church in which he has already 
rendered valuable service. He is a member of the Official Board. 



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REV. FREDRICK O. HOLMAN, D. D. 

Fredrick O. Holman, son of Joshua B. and Sarah Dudley H., 
was born April n, 1857, at Canaan, New Hampshire. His father 
was a Methodist clergyman. When but a child his parents moved 
to western Massachusetts where he was educated in the public 
schools. He entered Boston in 1877 and graduated in the class of 
1 881 with the degree of A. B. In connection with his college 
studies he preached at Walpole, Massachusetts, during the year of 
1879-81 and supplied at Cottage City, Mass., from the fall of 1881 
to the fall of 1882. Bright prospects arose before him in the East 
where prominent and influential friends were interested in his pro- 
motion, but on account of lung trouble he was compelled to sepa- 
rate himself from friends and unusual opportunities and move 
westward. His physician advised him to try the climate of Minne- 
sota. Upon arriving in St. Paul he was appointed to the City 
Mission, which work comprised Bates Avenue Church and King 
Street. In 1883 ne united with the Minnesota Conference on pro- 
bation and was appointed to Bates Avenue Church where he 
preached in 1883-4. ^ n 1885-6-7 he was pastor of Foss Church, 
Minneapolis, where his labors were crowned with phenominal suc- 
cess, and he became enthroned in the hearts of a loving and grate- 
ful people. In January, 1888, he was taken from Foss Church and 
appointed to the First Church, St. Paul, to meet the emergency 
arising from the defection of Dr. S. G. Smith. He was returned 
to the First Church in 1888 but during this year his old trouble 
coupled with a nervous break-down set in. and at the Conference 
of 1889 he was compelled to take a supernumerary relation. He 
rested for two years, part of which time was spent in traveling in 
Europe and lecturing. Rest brought relief and to the gratification 
of his man}^ friends he reported to his Conference in 1891 and was 
appointed to the Hennepin Avenue Church, in conjunction with 
Dr. O. H. Tiffany who was not able to enter the pulpit after this 
appointment and died within a few weeks, when Dr. Holman as- 
sumed full pastoral charge. From the very start his ministry at 
Hennepin was of the most successful character. His superb pul- 
pit abilities coupled with his social qualities drew like a magnet and 
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small to accommodate the multitudes that would throng about his 
pulpit to catch the inspiration of his life and words. Soon after 
his appointment he delivered a series of sermons on The Evi- 
dences of Christianity which have since been published in pamphlet 
form and give him high rank as a theological writer. Dr. Holman 
is not only a scholar, but a genius. He is one of the few preachers 




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possessed of the ability to preach without the aid of the pen. His 
preparation is entirely without notes. He is systematic in his con- 
struction, logical in his method and eloquent in his delivery. Many 
of his passages are so chaste and finished that one would presume 
hours had been devoted to their preparation and yet they burst 



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from his vast and varied resources, singing like a mountain stream 
in their rhythmic flow. 

On October 4, 1893, he was married to Miss Harriet Hulet 
Walker, youngest daughter of Thomas B. and Harriet G. Walker, 
of Minneapolis, a beautiful, cultured lady whose rare attainments 
and remarkable affability give special strength and adornment to 
Dr. Holman's success. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Simpson College, Iowa, in 1889. He was again stricken down 
with his former trouble in the spring of 1894 and finally compelled to 
temporarily succumb and remove to Colorado where he still re- 
mains. His journey westward was followed by the eyes and 
hearts of the people of Minneapolis without respect to sect, or creed 
and they are only comforted in their loss by the good news that 
the western climate is restoring their friend and brother to his 
former health and power. The latest news from his western 
home confirms this report and it is confidently hoped that within a 
few months or a year at the longest he will again be able to put on 
the armor and do valiant service in the hosts of the Lord Christ. 

REV. HENRY HUGH FRENCH 

Henry Hugh French was born October 6, 1858, at Cambridge, 
Mass. His father, Henry Hugh, was a strict Episcopalian and 
his mother, Eleanor, was connected with the Congregational 
Church. The son early displayed a marked ambition to arise to a 
position of influence and power in the world. He recognized the 
importance of a thorough education and early began the pursuit of 
it. He attended the public schools of Boston until he was twelve 
years of age. Although at this time his school life summarity 
ended, he did not give up his studious habits, but continued to 
apply himself to books during several years of severe toil. 

In 1875 his hard lot was suddenly changed and a new era in 
his life was marked by his conversion, at Kingston, N. H., under the 
pastorate of James Carnes. Immediately after his conversion he 
felt called to the ministry and began to devote himself to prepara- 
tion for the great work. He first attended the academy at King- 
ston, after which he completed a four years' course in the Con- 



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ference Seminary at Tilton, N. H. He then went to the Boston 
Theological Seminary and graduated with honor in 1883. During 
this period he took special studies in the universit}-. 

He united with the N. H. Conference on probation in 1881. 
After graduating at Boston he was appointed to his first charge at 
Methuen, Mass., remaining there two years. He was then ap- 
pointed to the pastorate at Great Falls, N. H., after which he 
served Grace Church at Haverhill, Mass., two years and a half. 




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He w is then invited to the old Centenary Church, Minneapo- 
lis, of which he was appointed pastor by Bishop Mallalieu. Upon 
beginning in his new field he encountered many things that w r ould 
have discouraged a less heroic spirit but "fail" has no place in his 
dictionary. He has substituted for it the word "strive." Under 
his strong leadership, the old Centenary Church began to throb 
with new life. The eloquent preacher soon commanded a hearing 
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improved at once and the passing months found the membership 
on the steady increase. 

The old purpose to erect the new structure, which had waned 
to a spark in the hearts of the membership, was soon fanned to a 
full flame and soon the whole church was illumined with the light 

o 

of the new enterprise. Nor did this purpose subside until it culmin- 
anted in the present magnificent structure. He remained in this 
pastorate the full term of live years, during which period he re- 
ceived into the church by letter and probation over 300. His pas- 
torate has recently ceased and he has gone to labor elsewhere, but 
his voice is still heard and his -'works do follow him." 

His recent change to the Congregational Church was with the 
greatest love for Methodism and the warmest feeling toward her 
preachers and people. 

He is a man of good physique, makes an excellent appearance 
on the platform, has a splendid voice, and is a ready and forcible 
speaker, using no manuscript or notes in a sermon. He is a young 
man of thorough culture, has a wide range of information and 
keeps well up with the times. In his preaching he applies the 
gospel to the questions of the day and is active along all lines of 
moral reform. He handles his themes with the ease of a skilled 
musician, calling melodies from his favorite instrument. At times 
he is tierce and strong, breaking into denunciations of wickedness 
that strike terror to the heart of the evil doer, and then he is as 
tender as a sorrowing mother, comforting the broken hearted and 
poring the oil of gladness into the wounded spirit. His future, 
measured by the past, must be crowned with glorious success. 

CYRUS BROOKS 

Cyrus Brooks was born in Westford, Chittenden Count}", Yt.. 
February 8, 181 1. His father was a descendant of the Brooks 
who became a citizen of Concord, Mass., in 1639. ^ s m °ther's 
ancestry is traced back to Samuel Morse, who came from England 
in 1665, and two years later was one of the original settlers of Ded- 
ham, Mass. His parents were Baptists, and family worship was 
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the subject of deep and persistent religious convictions, and along 
with this there was a most distressing fear that he was not one of 
the elect. He can never quite forgive Calvanism for what he suf- 
fered in childhood and his narrow escape from infidelity, when he 
broke away from it as he was merging into manhood. 

In childhood he was very fond of books and escaped some of 
the grosser vices that are not uncommon, through his studious 
habits. 

When but six years of age his parents moved to Ohio and 
settled near Granville, in Licking County. His father died w r hen 
he was fifteen; two years later the family was broken up and thence- 
forward he was without a settled home. A Christian life began on 
the 7th of August, 1 83 1, when, after weeks of agony, he "found 
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," and along with 
peace came the clear conviction that his life work must be the Gos- 
pel ministry. Two weeks after this happy change, he embraced 
the first opportunity of uniting with the church. 

In the summer of 1832 he was licensed to exhort and the year 
later to preach and was recommended to the Ohio Conference for 
admission on trial. He was received August 23, 1833, and in due 
time graduated to the full ministry. He has traveled circuits four 
years, occupied stations thirty years and been a Presiding Elder 
fifteen years — twenty-four in Ohio and twenty-five in Minnesota. 

He was .transferred from the Cincinnati Conference to Minne- 
sota in 1857. His work was somewhat interrupted by sickness 
during his early ministry and the last twelve years of his life have 
been vears of enforced idleness, but as he worked cheerfully when 
on the field, he has retired with the same cheerful spirit. He has 
been a member of six General Conferences : 1852, '56, '60, '68, '72, 
'76. He was a member of the Book Committee from 1868 to 1872 
and chairmain of the committee the last two of those years and pre- 
pared the majority report to the General Conference of 1872. 

He has been married twice and has five children, two of whom 
are in the Methodist ministry, three, including these, are rejoicing 
in the Christian life and two have "gone before." 



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MILTON G. SHUMAN 

Milton G. Shurnan was born at Th )m r )3ontovvn, Pa., October, 
1866, of German and Scotch-Irish parentage. He was educated in 
the common schools and afterwards pursued a course in the State, 
Normal Institution. At the early age of seventeen he was able to 
pass a rigid examination and received a teacher's certificate, when 
he at once began to teach, and continued until he was twenty 
During this period, he worked on the farm in the summers, for he 
could not be induced to spend any time in idleness. He believed 
that work with the hand was as necessary and honorable as with 
the head. Failing health compelled him to leave the schoolroom. 

At the age of twenty-one, he moved to Canton, O., where he 
accepted a situation with the Canton Gas & Coke Company, re- 
maining three years and passing through different grades until he 
reached the position of assistant superintendent. In 1891 he re- 
ceived an offer from the Gas Street & Coke Company of Helena, 
Mont., and accepted it. 

Mr. Shuman was reared in a Christian home, his parents being 
strong Lutherans. His brilliancy when but a boy led them to an- 
ticipate for him the ministerial profession and they shaped as best 
they could his education toward that end: but soon their hopes 
were to be disappointed, for, like many other young men, when he 
began to think and read and investigate for himself, he was caught 
in the meshes of skepticism and led onward until much of his re- 
ligious feeling and faith in the Bible and its God were obliterated. 
In this frame of mind, he reached Helena, where shortly afterward 
he became a member and ardent worker in the Unitarian Society 
He subsequently explained that he accepted Unitarianism, because 
it seemed like the fine art of Atheism. 

But his mother's prayers had gone ahead to the Throne of 
Grace, and this young man set aside for the work of the ministry 
when but a child, could not frustrate destiny. In the spring of 1893 
he dropped into a revival service that was being held in St. Paul's 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. J.Wesley Hill was the pastor. 
During the sermon he became greatly moved and felt a longing for 
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he accepted an invitation to step into the pastor's study, where an 
animated discussion of religous questions followed. At the close 
of the conversation he promised to read the New Testament through ; 
to read it prayerfully; to accept light, and to attend church during 
the progress of the special meetings. These promises were all 
kept, and shortly afterwards he was suddenly and soundly con- 




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verted and brought to an experimental knowledge of the Christian 
religion. 

He at once became active in church work and attracted great 
attention by the fervor of his prayers and the warmth of his exhor- 
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that he was especially fitted for the ministry, and after having served 
his probation was given exhorter's license, and subsequently licensed 
as a local preacher. On the first of May, 1894, a vacancy having 
occurred in Grace Church, St. Paul, he was sought as a supply for 
that pulpit by the Presiding Elder and was finally prevailed upon 
to accept it. 

Upon reaching this first field of his ministry, he found much 
of a discouraging nature; a small congregation, a heavy indebted- 
ness and a discouraged membership. But with matchless faith in 
God and the courage of a true leader he undertook the arduous and 
difficult work at hand. At once fresh life and zeal were inspired 
among the people. They rallied around the young preacher, feel- 
ing that somehow success would come under his generalship. 
They were not disappointed. His sermons, so simple and direct, 
heart-searching and thoughtful, glowing with the fire of the true 
orator, soon attracted attention among the people outside of the 
church. The congregations began to increase and encouraging in- 
dications broke in from all sides. By unanimous request from the 
official board he was reappointed pastor at the last Conference and 
has started into the year with the determination, b}^ God's help and 
the hearty cooperation of the people, to solve some of the prob- 
lems that have embarrassed this church and people in other days. 

REV. DAVID TICE 

Rev. David Tice was born November 12, 1829, in Caistor, 
Lincoln County, Canada, being the youngest of fifteen children 
born to John and Elizabeth Tice. He attended school until past 
thirteen years of age. One day he proposed to his father that in- 
stead of giving him a farm, as he proposed for all his sons, he give 
him his time until twentv-cne and he would not ask other help. 
His father was shocked at the proposal, saying he could not take 
care of himself, but would get into trouble and dishonor the family. 
But the lad insisted, until his father reluctlantly consented, with 
this admonition. "If you think you can do better for yourself 
than your parents, go; but, remember if you do any wrong thing, 
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That night the boy lodged some miles from home; the next 
day he received 36 cents, for work. Soon after that he was 
offered 50 cts., and then a neighbor gave him 75 cents. At the end 
of the first year he had saved $100, and then bought a team, and 
soon earned $2 per day. The next year he saved several hun- 
dred dollars and went to school during the winter. Then he began 




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to buy books. One of the most important to him, aside from the 
Bible, was "Watson's Theological Dictionary." Then began 
night study, singing, and reading and acquiring useful knowledge. 

Soon he bought 120 acres of land, cleared a part, and platted 
the Village of Caistorv:lle in which he became Postmaster, Justice 
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During the winter of 1850 he was converted. This he has 
often mentioned, as it was a marked event in his history, and 
made a wonderful impression upon his life. "About midday" he 
tells us he met a friend who, speaking with him in the street, 
said: "Do not be discouraged, light will come." His reply was: 
"Discouraged? never! If I go to hell I will go there praying!" And 
instantly light filled his soul, joy unspeakable took possession of his 
being. Happy day and night, he could sing: 

"0 happy hour O hallowed spot! 
Where Love first found me; 
Where'ere falls my distant lot, 
My heart shall linger round thee: 
And when from earth I rise and soar 
Up to my Home in Heaven, 
Down will I cast my eyes once more, 
Where I was first forgiven!" 

He set apart the best propert} r in the village for a Metho- 
dist Church and gave liberally for its erection; also labored as 
class-leader, exhorter, local preacher, leading an excessively busy 
life, studying nights, and all other times that could be secured. 

Then commenced a mental conflict, which extended through 
several years. Deeply impressed with the conviction that his duty 
was to preach, he hesitated, hoping he could satisfy God by divid- 
ing his time between religion and secular things and giving freely 
to His cause. He was sincerely anxious to know what the will 
of the Lord was before he turned aside from business pursues. 
Had he only pressed the question fully before the Lord as he 
did in after time, it would no doubt have been settled sooner. 
Having a home, he at this time was married. And then he 
thought the question was settled. But it only grew in complica- 
tion. Soul trouble was upon him. In the woods one da} 7 he 
made the matter a final issue; covenanting with the Lord, if it 
was his duty to devote his life to the ministry, he would willingly 
do so, if the way would open to lay off his public duties, and 
dispose of his property. Soon there came along a Scotchman who 
purchased his property. On September 3, 1857, the question 
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Having a good wife he believed it a great advantage over hav- 
ing none. He was a loyal Methodist. But his Wesleyan Church 
said "Married men need not apply." Next } ear was spent in ex- 
ploring the western states, and assisting pastors in Canada. The 
next year he moved within the Rock River Conference, and was 
assistant pastor of Rev. John Nate. 

Impaired health next spring sent him to Minnesota, and in 
May, 1859, he agreed to supply Stockton circuit. In October fol- 
lowing he was ordained Deacon, and re-appointed to the same 
charge. Then to Marion, Austin, St. Cloud, Mankato, then agent 
of Hamiine University, and Lake City. His health failed the 
second year. Then Rushford, Faribault, Taylors Falls, Clinton 
Avenue, St. Paul, Stillwater and then Minneapolis. 

Overwork necessitated a little rest and he received a super- 
numerary relation which continued for two years. Purchasing prop- 
erty he made it possible to support himself in doing much City 
Mission work. Brother Tice has been called by some a church 
builder. Besides repairing and improving churches, he has built 
churches in Rushford, Marion, Austin, St. Cloud, Mankato, Lake. 
City, Western Ave., and St Louis Park, and helped to inaugurate 
the Fowler Church. At present he has charge of City Missions. 
As a pastor he has been usually successful in winning many souls 
on the charges he has served. He has contributed liberally of 
his means to the church. 

REV. JAMES FRANKLIN CHAFFEE, D. D. 

Rev. James Franklin Chaffee, Presiding Elder Minneapolis 
District, was born in the town of Middlebury, Wyoming County, 
N. Y., November 5, 1827. His parents, Chaffees on both sides, 
belonged to the sturdy New England stock, having been among 
the colonists emigrating from old England prior to 1650. They 
removed to Northern Illinois when the son was seventeen years 
old, so that the whole period of his minority was passed upon the 
frontiers of civilization, where in labor and study he built up a 
hardy frame, upon a constitution inherited from temperate and 
laborious ancestors. His educational opportunities were such 



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only as the common schools afforded, supplemented by hard study 
and a wide range of reading. How well he improved his slender 
opportunities for obtaining learning is attested by the graceful 
act of the Illinois Wesleyan University, which conferred upon him 
some ten years ago the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 

Dr. Chaffee was received into the ministry of the Methodist 
Episcopal church by the Rock River Annual Conference in the fall 
of 1848, at the age of twenty-one years. For the next nine years 
he shared the life of the itinerant ministry. His first charge was 
as junior preacher of the Carthage circuit, which included the city 
of Nauvoo. Successive appointments were at Oquawka, two 
years; Monmouth and Knoxville one year each, and Lewiston and 
Jefferson streets, Chicago, each two years. The latter was the 
leading Methodist church in the city with one exception. 

In the meantime, during the first year of his ministry, he mar- 
ried Miss Calista Hopkins, who during all the subsequent years has 
endured with him the toils and responsibilities, and shared with him 
the felicities of a Methodist preacher's itinerant life. 

Dr. Chaffee took up his residence in what is now the city of 
Minneapolis in the fall of 1857, and was stationed at St. Anthony 
about September 1, of that year. 

During his first appointment in St. Anthony, which continued 
a little less than two years, though in feeble health, he conducted a 
series of meetings, for eight weeks, without ministerial help, which 
yielded one hundred accessions to the church. Throughout his 
pastorates the spiritual results of his labors have been fruitful in 
revivals of religion, and accessions to the church. In the spring of 
1849 -Dr. Chaffee was appointed to the charge of Jackson Street 
Church, St. Paul, but returned to Minneapolis in the fall of i860, 
to the then only Methodist church in Minneapolis. It was a frame 
building at the corner of Fifth and Oregon (now Third avenue) 
streets, opposite the new court house. 

He was appointed chaplain of the Fifth regiment of Minnesota 
Infantry. Severe sickness compelled Chaplain Chaffee to resign 
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In the fall of 1862 Dr. Chaffee was appointed Presiding 
Elder of the Minneapolis District, which then included the whole 
northwestern frontier of the state, which had been devastated by 
the Indian outbreak of that year. For two years he traveled 
throughout this extensive field, strengthening the feeble churches 




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and organizing others, furnishing his own horse, paying his own ex- 
penses, upon the annual salary of $550. Two years later the Min- 
neapolis and St. Paul districts were consolidated, and Dr. Chaffee 
was made Presiding Elder of the new district, continuing for the 
next three years; meanwhile the Methodist church in Minne- 
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Dr. Chaffee was appointed to the pastorate of this 
church in 1867, continuing its pastor for the next three years. 
At this time the Centenary was the largest church and had 
the largest congregation of any of the city churches. In each 
of the three winters the church enjoyed revivals of religion, 
and its memhership largely increased. In 1870 he was appointed 
to the Minneapolis City Mission which he accepted with a view to 
gaining a year of partial rest. The rest was, however, obtained 
by a change in the kind rather than amount of labor, for he de- 
voted himself to the organizing of the Seventh Street Church, 
procuring with the aid of liberal members of the old church, 
the building of a convenient church edifice for the congregation, 
which has since become the flourishing Thirteenth Avenue Church. 

For the next few years Dr. Chaffee filled a pastorate at Duluth, 
another at Faribault, another at St. Paul, and was Presiding Elder 
of the Winona District. 

To the pastorate of the Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church he 
was by special request appointed in 1879, anc ^ continued for three 
years. 

The next four years were occupied with fulfilling the duties of 
Presiding Elder of the Minneapolis District. Through these years 
he was largely instrumental in the organization of a number of 
churches, and in raising funds for houses of worship. Among 
these were Twenty-fourth Street M. E. Church, Simpson Church, 
Bloomington Avenue, Forest Heights, Western Avenue, Taylor 
Street, Lake Street, and more recently Fowler. 

Since 1887 Dr. Chaffee has been Presiding Elder of the 
Winona and Minneapolis Districts. 

In 1867, 1879, I ^^3 and 1891, he was elected delegate to the 
General Conference, and each time on the first ballot as leader of 
the delegation. The General Conference of 1892 elected him a 
member of the General Missionary Committee, the term of which 
will not expire until the meeting of the General Conference in 
1896. His most important general service has been in connection 
with the educational work of the church. .At the conference held 
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Agent of Hamline University. For the last five years Dr. Chaffee 
has been president of its Board of Trustees. 

A most philanthropic work which' has in recent years engaged 
Dr. Chaffee's attention, is the organization of Asbury Hospital, 
which, largely through the liberality of Mrs. Sarah H. Knight, the 
daughter of his old friend, T. A. Harrison, has been equipped and 
opened as a public hospital, but under the management of the 
Methodist churches. Dr. Chaffee is president and financial agent 
of the institution. 

Dr. Chaffee has been a prolific writer for the press. Besides 
conducting the editorial work of the Methodist Herald, he has 
been a frequent contributor to the local and periodical press. Not 
alone does the discussion of theological and church subjects engage 
his pen, but speculative and scientific ones as well. Especially is 
he strong in meeting the cavilers at religion on scientific grounds. 
In theology he is liberal within the limits permitted to a loyal be- 
liever in the doctrines of his church. 

Of a family of nine children born to Dr. and Mrs. Chaffee, but 
two survive. Their daughter Carrie, is the wife of H. M. Farn- 
ham, Esq., and his son, Hugh G., is connected with the Security 
Bank. 

HUGH GALBRAITH HARRISON 

Hugh Galbraith Harrison. In 1803 Thomas Harrison emigrated 
from North Carolina and settled in the wilderness four miles south- 
west of the village of Belleville, Illinois. He was a sturdy man of 
Scotch-Irish descent, and a local preacher in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. Here he opened a farm, and raised a family of 
nine children. He was not only a pioneer in the wilderness but he 
was a pioneer in the milling business of the Mississippi Valley. 
As early as 1826 he purchased for $300 an ox mill at Belleville, 
and his two elder sons left the farm and assumed the management 
of the old mill. Five years later the father removed to Belleville 
with his family and introduced into the mill the first steam engine 
that was set up in the State of Illinois. A new and larger mill was 
built in 1836, which was burned in 1843 with 5,000 bushels of 



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wheat and 500 barrels of flour, and no insurance. It was rebuilt 
the next year, and the business so enlarged that as a local chronicle 
testifies, "For many years the product of the Har rison mills at 
Belleville was the standard of excellence throughout the commer- 
cial world. Their sales of flour and purchases of wheat reached 
millions of dollars." Until the introduction of the new process in 




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milling, by which the superior qualities of spring wheat were 
developed, Belleville flour was the best in the country. 

Hugh G. Harrison was a vounger son of this pioneer family, 
born April 23, 1822. He was educated at McKendree College 
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father and brothers in the milling business at Belleville. In i860 
Thomas A., William and Hugh G. Harrison removed to Minne- 
apolis. Each built a fine residence; that of Hugh being on a 
double block at the corner of Nicollet and Eleventh, then far out 
of the built-up part of the town, and covered with a hazel brush 
thicket. This remained the family homestead, and is to-day one 
of the most admired homes of the city. For many years the 
brothers made their investments and carried on business in com- 
mon. In course of time the abundant opportunities for business, 
and perhaps diverse tastes led them to separate and pursue different 
lines. They were original stockholders in the First National 
Bank of St. Paul, and largely interested in the St. Paul and Sioux 
City railroad. 

In 1862 they built on the corner of Washington and Nicollet 
avenues the stone block, still standing, at that time the most im- 
posing building in the town, and having a hall which furnished for 
years the audience room for public meetings and concerts. 

In 1863 they associated themselves with Joseph Dean in the 
'lumber business. The firm of Joseph Dean & Co., for the next 
fifteen years became the leader in the lumber trade of the city. 
They bought fine timbered lands,^purchased and rebuilt a large 
saw mill at the mouth of Bassett's Creek, and opened lumber 
yards. Subsequently they built the Pacific mill on the river bank 
just above the suspension bridge, which was for years the largest 
and best equipped saw mill in the city. On retiring from the 
lumber business in 1877, the Security Bank was organized, with 
the largest capital of any bank in the city. T. A. Harrison being 
president; Hugh G. Harrison, vice-president, and Joseph Dean, 
cashier. The bank from the first was prosperous, and took the 
lead in that line of business. The capital was enlarged as the 
needs of business required, until it reached $1,000,000, with de- 
posits of nearly $6,000,000. At the death of the elder brother, 
Hugh G. Harrison was elected its president, and gave personal 
attention to its management, the bank attaining uninterrupted 
prosperity, and engaging in a high degree the public confidence, 
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The business career and character of Mr. Harrison were 
sketched in an obituary written at the time of his death bv one 
who had known him intimately, and been associated with him in 
church fellowship, from which we condense the concluding part of 
this notice. 

H. G. Harrison was always foremost in every enterprise re- 
lating to the growth and well being of the city. He was a careful 
student of political questions, though not in the ordinary sense a 
politician. For many years during the formative and constructive 
period of the school system of the city he was a member of the 
School Board, and one of its most faithful and effective workers. 
Largely to his excellent judgment is due the fact that the City of 
Minneapolis is possessed of so much valuable school property. 
He was administrator of the Spencer estate, which became the 
foundation for the public library. He was mayor of Minneapolis 
in 1868, and made a splendid administration for the young and 
growing city. He founded the grocery house of B. S. Bull & Co., 
in the seventies, and later on that of Geo. R. Newell & Co. He 
w^as one of the largest subscribers and first director and treasurer 
of the Minneapolis Exposition. At the time of his death he was 
vice-president of the Minneapolis Trust Companv. He always 
took a deep interest in Hamline University, to which he contributed 
large sums of money. Indeed Mr. H. G. Harrison's benefactions 
in this city among the churches and benevolent enterprises are a 
multitude. He seemed always to be giving, and he always gave 
with discrimination, with a liberal hand and cheerfully. Particular- 
ly was this the case in the realm of Methodism, of which denomin- 
ation he had been a life long member and active promoter. 

Mr. Harrison was a cultivated Christian gentleman. He was 
a member and trustee of Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church of this 
city. Always a student, an extensive traveler both in this country 
and abroad, an omniverous reader of the best literature, his mind 
was broad and his views well settled. There was nothing narrow 
in his disposition or attainments. He was helpful, always helpful, 
to young men, to worthy public enterprises, and to the necessities 
of men and women about him, his purse was ever open. He was 
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Mr. Harrison was twice married. His first wife, Irene, died 
August 13. 1876. By this marriage he had five sons, all now living 
and grown to manhood, and successfully engaged in various lines 
of business. They are Edwin, George, Lewis, Hugh and Perry- 
October 25, 1877, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Hunt, of Allen- 
town, Pa., who, with her daughter, Helen Louise, and the sons 
above named, survive him. He also has three sisters, Mrs. Dovy 
Mc Bride, of Bellville, 111., Mrs. Olive Green and Mrs. Anna H. Go- 
heen, residing in the vicinity. 

Mr. Harrison had made in the latter part of July, 1891, a busi- 
ness trip to the East, and returning seemed in perfect health. A 
slight indisposition kept him at home for a few days. He was at 
his desk at the bank on Monday, August 10, but returning home 
took to his bed, and on Wednesday night went to his final rest, 
heart failure following a severe cold, being assigned as the fatal 
cause. 

"His life was ripe; his end was peaceful and lovely; his rest is 
earned; his works do follow him." 

GEN. GEORGE P. WILSON 

George P. Wilson was born on the family homestead, a farm, 
near Lewisburgh, Union Co., Pennsylvania, on January 19, 1840. 
His father and mother were Methodists of the genuine type and 
reared their children in that faith. In those primitive days it was 
considered no reflection on parents to rear large families even 
though it involved ceaseless toil and sacrifice. Mr. Wilson was 
the last of twelve children, eight of whom are still living. He left 
the farm in 1857 to attend the Lewis, now Bucknell, University 
where he remained until the fall of 1858, when he became a stud- 
ent of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. While 
here he made decided advancement; not sparing the midnight oil 
for the oil of an enlightened understanding. 

He remained in this institution until December i860, when he 
removed to Winona, Minnesota, and began the study of law. He 
was admitted to the bar in October, 1862, at Rochester, Minn. 
In 1864 ne was elected assistant secretary of the State Senate and 



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served in this capacity the following session and as secretary the 
two following sessions. In 1866 he was elected county attorney 
of Winona County and twice re-elected. In 1S71 he was appointed 
government commissioner on the Southern Pacific R. R., and in 
that capacity viewed the first eighty miles of railroad from San 






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Francisco south. In 1872-3 he was a member of the house of re- 
presentatives from Winona Count v. In 1S73 he was elected at- 
torney general of Minnesota and was twice re-elected, serving in 
that capacity until January, 18S0. Soon after this he removed to 
Fargo, in the then territory of Dakota, where he remained engaged 
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Tiring of frontier life and still retaining a warm love for Min- 
nesota, the state of his adoption in boyhood, in 1887 ne removed 
with his family to Minneapolis where he is now prospering in his 
profession. He is a prominent member of the Hennepin Avenue 
Church, being connected with its official board. He believes in 
the gospel and has no patience with any attempt from the pulpit 
to cover its reproaches, explain away its power, or make it popular 
with new fangled notions. He enjoys deep spiritual truth for his 
own soul and insists that such preaching is the onlv source of 
power for the pulpit, and hope for the world. 

GEORGE HERBERT TAYLOR 

George Herbert Taylor was born in Berkshire, Vermont, on 
a farm situated on the eastern slope of hills running parallel with 
the Green Mountains and about midway between them and Lake 
Champlain, on the morning of May 10, 1853, of poor but refined 
and intelligent parents. His father was John Taylor, a Yorkshire 
Englishman, and his mother, Sarah Dowler, a Scotch woman. 
Like his father before him, Thomas Taylor, a Welshmen, his father 
was a farmer. With many others of his countrymen he came to 
this country in 1840 to better his condition and settled on the farm 
where the subject of this sketch was born. At the time of his 
settlement there it was nothing but a Vermont wilderness. For 
eighteen years he laid sturdy blows on the stalwart forest trees, 
so that when he died in 1858, more than seventy acres had been 
cleared and made ready for the plow. 

In a little log school house surrounded by towering maples, 
his son George received suchinstructions as the teachers of that day 
and location were competent to impart. For six years he labored on 
his father's farm but was so intent on securing an education that 
he would study under the flickering light of the pine knot until the 
small morning hours. His only books were the Bible and the 
Seven Wonders of the World, his only tutor, nature. 

At eighteen he was fully determined to acquire an education 
and set out alone without any assistance. For eight months he 
attended the academy at Richford, Vermont. In the summer fol- 



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lowing he found employment as freight brakeman on the Central 
Vermont Railway. 

In his ambition for a bright intellect, he was not afraid to soil 
his hands. After working twenty-two days on the railroad he was 
caught between the cars and so injured that he has carried a crip_ 




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pled and partially useless arm, ever since. For fourteen months 
subsequent to this he was out of employment; all his dreams of 
an education disappeared, and a dark cloud of $600 indebtedness 
rolled up before him which was the result of his inability to work 
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Upon recovery, the railroad again gave him employment and 
for twelve years he continued in that capacity, but during this 
period he was not recreant to his intellectual training or in- 
different to the myriad opportunities that presented themselves for 
his development. He was a natural student and saw a lesson on 
every rock, flower and shrub. He had a natural taste for history 
and biography and was fond of writing sketches of all he saw or 
heard. After laboring hard all day he would write out at night 
the lessons he had received. His ability as a writer soon received 
recognition and for ten years he was the local correspondent of 
leading newspapers published in different parts of the state. 

In rummaging through an old attic one day, he found a copy 
of Blackstone which he read and re-read many times until he found 
himself drifting toward the legal profession. This time he re- 
moved from the East to the West and took up the study of law 
and was admitted to the bar in 1886 in the city of Minneapolis 
where he has since been a successful practitioner in all the courts 
of the state. 

His early ability as a writer continued to develop. In 1884 he 
wrote "How She Hated Him", a novel founded upon fact which 
is widely published and won him great praise. Since then, he has 
written a large number of interesting stories. These stories have 
largely been written between the hours of eight o'clock and mid- 
night. Many of them have been published, among them being 
"Fifteen Years a Mystery"; "John Ottonberg's Mistake"; "Eras- 
tus Corning, a Story for Boys"; "My Revenge"; "An Agreement 
and What Came of it"; "William Livingston, or, The man-with- 
the-white-face." Besides these, numerous other sketches, about 
fishing and hunting, have been published. Those attracting most 
attention were, "A Day in the Adirondacs"; "Hunting in Minne- 
sota"; "A Bear Hunt in Vermont"; "Trout Fishing in Wisconsin"; 
and "Hunting the Ruffled Grouse in Wisconsin". 

He was married in 1876 to the daughter of Hon. Daniel Til- 
den of West Lebanon, N. H., a wholesale flour and feed dealer 
and famous as a Jacksonian Democrat of the pronounced type. In 
1886 Mr. Taylor united with the church and is now an official 
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personal appearance, being five feet ten inches in height and weigh- 
ing two hundred fifty-six pounds, yet he can tire out the ordinary 
man in a tramp through the woods or field with gun or rod in hand. 
He is always bright, versatile and interesting, and as a conversa- 
tionalist has but few equals. He stands at the head of his profes- 
sion and is one of the leading representatives of his church. 

REV. C. C. LASBY, D. D. 

Rev. C. C. Lasby, D. D., is the pastor of the St. Paul's Church, 
Lincoln, Nebraska, one of the leading charges of Methodism. His 
rare ability as pulpit orator and his success as pastor display the 
outcome of pluck, patience and perseverance. 

Dr. Lasby was born in Canada. When but a child his mother 
died and he was left alone to fight the battle of life, for his father 
soon married again, and, discontented with a home without a 
mother, he started out in the world to do for himself. . 

Garfield says; "A boy should be dropped overboard at six- 
teen and if he is worth saving, he will swim to shore." Whether 
this is correct philosophy or not, the boy Lasby, when but eleven 
years of age, leaped into the angry flood of real life, breasted it, 
and has reached the shore of success. The best he could do at 
first was to accept a position as chore boy in a lumber camp in the 
pine forests of Michigan. There, back in the woods, sixty miles 
from a railroad, he spent five years among as rough a class 
of men as can be found. It was a wild, romantic, dangerous life- 
At first there were no churches or schools, but after a time, as the 
settlers flocked in and the country began to develop, stores and a 
schoolhouse were established. From chore boy young Lasby 
graduated to the main clerkship in a camp supply station. 

At the age of eighteen he went to Long Island and learned 
the printer's trade. Finally he moved to New York where he 
continued in his trade. He boarded in Brooklyn and while there 
was converted, and in January, 1873, united with the South Third 
Street Church. 

He felt called to the ministry and began a preparatory course 
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After pursuing a course in Victoria University of Canada, he en- 
tered Drew Theological Seminary and graduated in 1879; ne 
was immediately appointed to a church at Hartford, Conn., which 
was about to he sold under the "auctioneer's hammer." The 
edifice was unfinished, poorly furnished and uninviting; some of 




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the audience room windows had boards instead of glass, but the 
young pastor was equal to the emergency, and in two years he 
had raised enough money to liquidate the entire indebtedness, spent 
$1500 in fitting up the building, and left a large membership and 
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He was then transferred to John Street Church in New York, 
mother church of Methodism. At this church he greatly increased 
the membership and paid the debt within a few months. The 
church then sent him to Europe for rest, where he traveled exten- 
sively on the continent. In Switzerland he met a lady, Miss Cara 
T. Newman, who, two years later became his wife. He returned 
and enlarged the work at John Street, raising more money for re- 
pairing the old edifice. Then he was appointed to Flushing, Long 
Island. His pastorate there revived the church and liquidated a 
large part of an old indebtedness. At the expiration of three years, 
he was appointed to Ridgefield, Connecticut. The next appoint- 
ment was to Green Avenue Church, Brooklyn, and after a most 
successful pastorate there he was appointed to the Summer Av- 
enue Church, Brooklyn. 

This church was new and weak and imperfectly organized, 
but through the ability and superb tact of Dr. Lasby, it developed 
into one of the strongest churches in Brooklyn, and increased its 
congregation and membership at least onefold. While pastor of 
this church his health became so impaired that he was compelled 
to seek a change of climate more suitable to his physical condition. 
Consequently he accepted an invitation to the pastorate of the St. 
Paul's Church, at Lincoln, Nebraska. Upon severing his relations 
with the Summer Avenue Church he was accorded a reception by 
Brooklyn Methodists which, perhaps, in its extent, enthusiastic 
greeting and profound grief at his going, exceeded any similar oc- 
casion that has ever occurred in the history of Methodism in that 
city. All the churches and pastors were represented. Speeches 
were made by many prominent men, and when Dr. Lasby replied, 
the hearts of all were melted to sorrow. 

His pastorate at Lincoln has been one of phenomenal success. 
The membership has been greatly increased, and congregations 
have been called together that have exceeded the capacity of the 
large auditorium. 

The elements of Dr. Lasby's strength are found in his general 
disposition. In manner he is refined, cultivated, warm and hearty. 
He charms people to him and holds them by his genial and affable 
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especially in cases of sickness and affliction, when a pastor is most 
needed. He is prompt, untiring and S} 7 mpathetic; he is an excel- 
lent preacher. A broad mind lifts him above all cant or sensation- 
alism ; he does not need to resort to any cheap subterfuges in order 
to get a hearing; he is an earnest student of books and men. For 
fifty- two Sundays in the year he brings to his people thoughtful, 
logical, well illustrated and profound gospel sermons. He is sound 
in doctrine, and not afflicted with the fad of "progressive theology," 
while at the same time his scholarship keeps him fully abreast of 
the thought of the age. 

JOHN D. BLAKE 

John D. Blake was born in Marlboro, Windham Co., Vt., May 
16, 1838, on a farm on which his father, B. W. Blake, was born 
and lived until near the close of his life. His grandfather, James 
Blake, was a tinner by trade and made canteens and cartridge boxes 
for the federal army during the war of the revolution and as a boy 
was with his father, Increase Blake, a revolutionary soldier and one 
of the Boston tea party when the taxed tea was thrown overboard 
from British ships into Boston Harbor, securing for his mother, who 
was fond of tea, by wearing his father's large shoes and filling them 
with the tea wasted from the broken chests on the deck of the ship, 
supplies to last her through the tea famine of the revolutionary 
war. 

This mother, the great grandmother of the subject of this 
sketch, during the occupancy of the city of Boston by the British 
soldiers, sat one day in the front part of her house not far from the 
Old South Church, reading her English Bible, when she was visit- 
ed by soldiers who asked her what she was reading. She replied : 
"The story of the Cross"; when one of them took his sword and 
cut a cross through several pages of her Bible, telling her he would 
leave her a cross she would not soon forget. 

Mr. Blake had only the advantages of a Vermont country 
school education, excepting part of two terms at select or private 
schools where he pursued special studies outside of the common 
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and commenced clerking in the country store of Houghton & 
Walker, at Williamsville, Vt., still continuing his school studies as 
best he could out of business hours during the year of his clerkship. 
His first year's salary was $50 and board, out of which he supported 
himself and divided the amount with his father to assist him in the 




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payment of a debt incurred in buying an addition to the old home- 
stead farm. 

When but seventeen years of age, purchasing his minority 
from his father with capital provided by a wealthy bachelor who 
became interested in young Blake, he purchased the interests of 
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under the firm of Walker & Blake, in which he continued until ihe 
business was closed out in the spring of 1857, just in time 10 
escape the financial panic of that memorable year. He then re- 
moved to Brattleboro and found employment withCune & Brackett 
as manager of their dry goods store. 

In the spring of 1858 he formed a partnership with his former 
employer, H. F. Houghton, under the firm of Houghton & Blake, 
purchasing the dry goods and carpet business of Cune & Brackelt. 
This business was fairly successful, being vigorously prosecuted 
and closely attended to by Mr. Blake. Too close application to 
business and ambition for success, resulted in breaking down his 
health and in August, i860, he came West for a trip of recreation 
and to look up chances for an extension of his business. 

He was so impressed with the West that he settled in business 
at once and began the purchase and shipment of wheat and farm 
produce at Lansing, Iowa, at Winona, Minnesota, and during the 
winter at points on the Milwaukee & Du Chien Railroad. While 
at Winona he became impressed with the fertility and resources of 
Minnesota and visited Rochester, renting a new brick store then 
being built. He went East and arranged with his partner for a 
branch business under the name of J. D. Blake & Co. He then 
moved his family to the new western home, establishing the new 
business on the basis of cash payment, one price and low price. He 
expected to do a small business, but after six months its volume 
had increased to the rate of more than $150,000 a year, one year 
reaching the sum of $340,000. 

He formed a plan of profit-sharing business by admitting those 
who proved faithful and meritorious to a working interest in the 
profit, until finally those admitted to the business had secured suf- 
ficient interest in it to take it with their own capital. 

From 1874 t0 I 882 he was interested in the Chattanooga Iron 
Company, and also owned- and operated a flouring mill near Man- 
tortile, in Dodge Co., Minn. He also owned, operated and im- 
proved a large number of farms in the different parts of the state 
which he traded for Minneapolis property. Upon disposing of his 
interests at Rochester he removed to Minneapolis where he became 
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In 1878 failing health made it necessary for him to take a trip 
to Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida. He returned home in March, 
but shortly after received a spinal injury which resulted in tem- 
porary paralysis. As soon as he was able to travel he was taken 
to Europe where he slowly regained his health. 

Since coming to Minneapolis his principal business has been 
real estate. He has erected a large number of houses in the new 
portion of the city known as New Boston and sold them on such 
easy payments that a large number of people have been provided 
with homes at a little more than they would have paid for rent. 
Meanwhile Mr. Blake built for himself the beautiful home at 11 24 
Mt. Curve avenue, on Lowry Hill. 

Mr. Blake is a prominent Methodist and is a member of the 
Official Board of the Fowler Church. His parents and friends 
were all Baptists, but throvvn under Methodist influence, he fell in 
love w r ith its evangelical truths and finally became identified with 
it. He soon became interested in Sabbath School work and has 
always sought to promote, approve and advance methods in that 
line. He was for several years superintendent of the Sunday 
School at Rochester, and was a member of the first Lay Confer- 
ence of Minnesota and also a lay delegate to the General Conference 
held at Baltimore in 1876. He has been a large contributor to the 
benevolences of the church and is a life member of the Missionary 
Sunday School Tract and Bible Society; he has made contribu- 
tions which have built three churches on the frontier, has aided very 
many local churches in building or in difficulty, and has lately con- 
tributed property to the amount of $20,000 for relief and payment 
of the debt of the Clinton Avenue Church, of West St. Paul, sav- 
ing this important church to its great mission in that city. 

He was instrumental in the organization of the Sunday School 
and church known as Taylor Street, now Trinity, in Minneapolis, 
assisted in the organization of the Mission Sunday School on West- 
ern avenue and was superintendent of it until it outgrew its quar- 
ters and developed into the Western Avenue Church. He was 
also instrumental in organizing the Mission Sunday School of Cen- 
tenary Church in old Market Hall. Special attention has been 
given to systematic Sunday School quarterly reviews and for some 



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years he has written the quarterly review for the Illustrator, pub- 
lished at Chicago, Toronto and New York, which, with the review 
charts published by them, have been of great help to Sunday 
School teachers in aiding them in the difficult task of properly re- 
viewing the quarterly lessons. 

Mr. Blake was early connected with the Chautauqua move* 
ment and attended the first assembly in 1874. He was a delegate 
from Minnesota to the first International Sunday School Convention, 
at Indianapolis, in 1872. He has been active in the organization 
and maintenance of the Y. M. C. A., largely sustaining it while at 
Rochester, being for some time its president. He made the first 
contribution toward the building of the present Y. M. C. A. struc- 
ture in Minneapolis. 

On April 15, 1858, he was married to Julia R. Ingram, at 
Boston, Mass., to whom five children have been born, two sons 
and three daughters; of whom two daughters, only, have lived to 
womanhood. 



BERNARD B. BRETT 



Bernard B. Brett was born at 
Albany, New York, August 29, 1869. 
iiPW' He was educated there, obtaining a 

Regent's certificate. Like many other 
ambitious young men he had a desire 
to see the West and in 1886 came to 
Minnesota and for two years engaged 
in farming. 

From 1888 to 1891 he taught 
school, spending his vacations on the 
farm. In the early part of 1891 he 
studied stenography and, in March, 
1891, he entered the law firm of H. F. 
Woodard, at Fergus Falls, Minn., 
where he began the study of law. 
While in Fergus Falls he united with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and became quite active in church and Mission work, start- 




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ing a Mission Sunday School and superintending it until December, 
1891, at which time he came to Minneapolis, entering the law office 
of Taylor & Woodard. 

He was admitted to the bar before the supreme court in 1893 
and is now a member of the law firm of Taylor, Woodard & Brett. 
He has not permitted his professional duties to interfere with re- 
ligious life and privileges. He has kept up his activity in church 
and mission work and is one of the leading young men of Wesley 
Church. He was president, of the Young People's Society of c hris- 
tian Endeavor when Centenary Church moved into the the new 
Wesley Church and is now chairman of the Christian Endeavor 
Mission Committee, secretary and treasurer of the Wesley Chris- 
tian Endeavor Mission Sunday School, and a member of the Sun- 
day School Board, appointed by the Quarterly Conference. 

Mr. Brett is a man of unusual energy and intelligence and 
gives promise of future power in his chosen profession. 

DR. ELIZABETH S. DALBEY-NORRED 

Dr. Elizabeth S. Dalbey-Norred was born in Wells Co., Indiana, 
October 14, 1843. Joseph Asbury Dalbey, her father, was a native 
of Frederick County, Virginia, whence, at the age of four years, 
he moved with his father to Pickaway Co., Ohio. Here he 
grew to manhood and was married to Sarah H. Jennings, of Mont- 
gomery Co., November 2, 1842. 

In 1843 Joseph Asbury Dalbey moved from Ohio to Indiana, 
where he resided until 1852, when he removed to Illinois, and 
opened a large stock farm, upon which the interesting childhood 
days of Dr. Norred were spent. 

She was educated at the public schools and the North San- 
gamon Academy of Illinois, and on November 16, 1865, was mar- 
ried to Dr. Charles H. Norred, a surgeon in the 7th Illinois Caval- 
ry. She became the mother of two children, Charles Elmer, born 
April 6, 1867, and William Asbury, born Dec. 21, 1869. The 
father, mother and two sons are all at home and constitute a most 
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Sometime afte rher marriage to Dr. Charles H. Norred she 
took up the study ot her profession. In 1878 and 1879 sne attend- 
ed the winter and spring courses of lectures at the Woman's Medi- 
cal College of Philadelphia. In 1879, I 88o and 1881 she attended 
winter and spring courses at the Woman's Medical College of Chi- 




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cago, from which institution she was graduated. Her standing in 
the profession is represented by membership in the Illinois State 
Medical Society, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky Trio Medical Soci- 
ety, the American Medical Association, the Society of Physicians 
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and the Minnesota State Medical Society, in all of which she has an 
honorable standing and is highly respected. She is deservedly 
popular as a physician. She has been one of the directors and a 
member of the medical staff of the Northwestern Hospital for sev- 
eral years, and is consulting physician to the Asbury Hospital, both 
of Minneapolis. 

Dr. Norred is a broad minded woman in all her views and 
practices. Her charity and benevolence knows no restrictive lines. 
In her movements she only wants to be assured that her labor will 
be for the good of mankind and have the approval of God. While 
a member of the M. E. Church, attentive and laborious in temper- 
ance movements, she is not unmindful of the common brotherhood 
of man and the common Fatherhood of God. 

REV. LYMAN EDWIN PRENTISS, D. D. 

Lyman Edwin Prentiss was born in Putman County, Ohio, 
in 1849. He was converted in 1864 and was admitted into the 
Central Ohio Conference in 1873. His ministry has been marked 
from the first with wonderful success; he commenced at the lower 
round of the ladder, doing missionary work in Cincinnati, and has 
gradual^ ascended until at present he occupies one of the first 
charges of Methodism. Like the philosopher's stone, he has 
turned everything he touched into gold. Every field from circuit 
to station has felt the transforming power of his magic hand. Fame 
as a pastor soon brought him into great preeminence, he having 
filled some of the first stations in the Central Ohio Conference; he 
was sought for by the First Church, in Knoxville, Tenn., then 
by First Church, Chattanooga, and then transferred to Cincinnati 
Conference and stationed at Raper Church, Dayton, O., where he 
is still located. 

He is an all-round man and succeeds on all lines and, being pos- 
sessed of great personal magnetism, he readily wins his way to the 
hearts of the masses. He moves among his people like a sunbeam 
scattering light and gladness wherever he goes and solving the 
vexed question "How to reach the masses" by extending to the 
masses the hand of sympathy, love and help. As an organizer he 



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builds up every department of Christian work. "Everything paid 
up and money in the treasury," is the report on every charge to 
which he has been appointed. He is a live man and does every- 
thing with dispatch. As a preacher he is sententious, vigorous, 
eloquent, pointed and brief. He inspires and instructs without weary- 




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ing. He is an energetic pastor and needs no imported evangelist 
to fan the revival flames, hence, his ministry is always attended 
with signal revivals. He preaches a whole gospel, emphasizing 
ail its cardinal points, yet keeping clear of anything that savors of 
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He received the degree of D. D. from Grant University in 
1890. He was elected a member of the Board of Control of the 
Epworth League from the Sixth General Conference District, and 
in 1892 appointed by the Board of Bishops a member of the Exec- 
utive Committee. 



EZRA NORTI IFIELD 



Ezra Northrield was born in Cam- 
bridgeshire, England, July 10, 1844. 
His parents were Methodists of the 
primitive type and filled the life of their 
son Ezra with thoughts of duty and 
destiny. In 1849 they moved from 
England and settled in Milwaukee. 
In 1864 he moved to Lake City and 
came to Minneapolis in the fall of ib87- 
He was converted when a young man 
and at the age of eighteen united with 
the church and is now an official mem- 
ber of Trinity Church, Minneapolis, 
and one of the influential Christian 
business men in that part of the city. 
Foremost in every good work, he is in full sympathy with the 
church of his choice and always ready to contribute of his sub- 
stance or time to its great achievements. 

He is engaged in the meat business and illustrates the pos- 
sibilitv of mixing business and religion, being known as a man of 
inflexible honesty and sterling Christian qualities. 




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EVERETT F. ADAMS 



Everett F. Adams, physician and poet, was born April 25, 
1857, Washington County, Maine. He is of English and Scotch 
descent. His early education was acquired in the public schools. 
He studied medicine with one of the leading physicians of Boston, 
Mass.. and at a preparatory medical college, New York, and 
graduated at Vermont Medical College. 



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He practiced his profession in Lynn, Mass., three years, meet- 
ing with unusual success. He was elected vice-president of the 
American Health Society, Boston, November i, 1889. He removed 
to New York City in 1890. Still ambitious to excel in his pro- 
fession, he took a post graduate course in the Bellvue Medical 
College. During the same year, in 1891, he became assistant to 





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the distinguished Dr. Ballou, of the Outdoor Department of Bellvue 
Hospital. He came to Minneapolis in 1892 where he has been 
identified with many of the public institutions of the city. He is a 
member of the Board of Trade, a prominent Mason and Knight 
Templar. He is also president of the American Progressive In- 
vestment Company which is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. 



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Dr. Adams has acquired more than local fame with his pen as a 
poet, and for mam' years he has been correspondent of the leading 
journals and magazines of this country. He is a man of strict in- 
tegrity and unswerving allegiance to the church. He is a member 
of Fowler Church, also the Y. M. C. A., toward which he is a 
liberal contributor. 

REV. JOHN STAFFORD, D. D. 

Rev. Dr. Stafford was born in Nottingham, England, Decem- 
ber 6, 1843. He came to this country with his parents in the spring 
of 1857 and settled in eastern New York. He was converted dur- 
ing the great revival of 1857-8 and joined the M. E. Church at 
Union Village, Washington Co., N. Y. 

In i860 his parents w r ere attracted by the great opportunities 
presented in the West and moved to Minnesota traveling hundreds 
of miles with an ox team. They settled between Hastings and 
Red Wing. The settlement was called County Line and was in- 
cluded in the Red Wing Charge. Rev. Thomas Day was pastor. 
Dr. Stafford had ahvays felt the call to preach and now surrend- 
ered fully to the great work that appealed to him. He was 
licensed to preach in the fall of 1862; he attended Hamline Uni- 
versity, then located at Red Wing. In 1865 he was married to 
Miss Hattie R. Matthews, a young lady of culture, piety and de- 
votion. During the years of his subsequent ministry, she has been 
a helpmate in the full sense of the word. For the first two years 
of his ministry he served as a supply under the Presiding Elder. 
He joined the Methodist Conference in 1867 and was ordained dea- 
con by Bishop Simpson. Four years later he was ordained Elder 
and stationed at Waseosa, Anoka, Stillwater, Washington Avenue, 
now Foss Church, Minneapolis, Grace Church and Jackson Street 
Church, St. Paul. 

In 1878 he was appointed financial agent of Hamline Univers- 
ity. Upon assuming this responsibility, he was confronted by the 
greatest discouragement; he found an unfinished building standing 
alone on the prairie between the Twin Cities, its friends discour- 



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aged, and the Conference divided in its attitude toward it. Yet he 
was not bewildered. With that far-sightedness so characteristic 
of him, he set to work with a determination to win and in two 
years the building was finished and dedicated by Bishop Foss amid 
great enthusiasm. 




REV. JOHN STAFFORD, D. D. 



In 1882 he was stationed at Rochester. August 23, 1883, a 
cyclone destroyed the church and damaged the parsonage. In six 
months the church was rebuilt, more beautiful and commodious 
than before. At the close of this pastorate he was stationed at 
Grace Church, St. Paul, one year, and at First Church, Minneapo- 



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lis, three years. While here, his pastorate was very successful. 
His church was always filled and the membership was greatly 
increased. 

In the fall of 1880 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the 
Minneapolis District and remained in it for five years. In spite of 
the hard times he was aggressive. No opportunity for the useful- 
ness or glory of Methodism was neglected. His administration 
was characterized by the "forward movement" spirit. Among the 
many good things accomplished during his administration was the 
founding of Park Avenue Church and Fowler Church in Minne- 
apolis. Time will demonstrate his wisdom and commend his pluck. 

At the Conference in Minneapolis, 1893, Bishop Ninde ap- 
pointed him Presiding Elder of Mankato District where his efforts 
are being crowned by characteristic success. As a preacher Dr. 
Stafford is simple and plain. He preaches the Word, has no use 
for "claptrap" methods and hews to the gospel line. He is never 
tedious and always interesting and edifying. 

FINLEY DeVILLE NEWHOUSE, D. D. 

Finley DeVille Newhouse was born in Rochester, Fulton 
Co., Ind., July 27, 1857. His ancestors on both sides were of purely 
English stock. His father, Rev. John E. Newhouse, is a minister 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the N. W. Indiana Confer- 
ence, of which he has been a member for nearly half a century. 
Dr. Newhouse was educated in De Pauw University, Greencastle, 
Ind., and was graduated as a classical student in 1880, taking the 
history honors of his class. During his college course he achieved 
unusual success as an orator as well as student of the Greek lan- 
guage and literature, to which he gave special attention, reading 
much more than the regular course required. He received the 
degree of B. A. at graduation, and has since received the degree of 
A. M., and in 1892, the degree of D. D. 

Soon after graduation he was sent by Bishop William Taylor 
to the American College, at Conception, Chile, S. A., where he 
filled the Greek chair. In addition to his college duties he did 



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considerable preaching both in English and Spanish, and while yet 
in Chile was admitted as a minister to the N. W. Indiana Confer- 
ence. 

His health became seriously impaired and in the fall of 1884 
he returned to the United States and was almost immediately 




FINLEY DeVILLE NEWHOUSE, D. D. 



appointed pastor of the church at Williamsport, Ind. Here he was 
united in marriage to Miss Ida Kate Fox. 

The following fall, at the request of the missionary secre- 
taries of the church, he consented to a transfer to British India, and 
was made pastor of a large English church in Allahabad, capital of 
the N. W. Provinces, The health of Mrs. Newhouse becoming 



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feeble, they again returned to the United States in 1889, and Dr. 
Newhouse was stationed at the Fifth Avenue Church, in Goshen, 
Ind. Still in search of health, they went, in 1890^0 Huron, S. D., 
where the Methodist Church was served for three years. 

During this pastorate a heavy church debt was lifted, a valu- 
able parsonage property was acquired and 357 were added to the 
membership. In the fall of 1893, Dr. Newhouse received a call 
from Franklin Avenue Church, Minneapolis, which he accepted. 

He is the author of a college romance entitled, "The Three 
C's", and has published a book of lectures under the title, "Why I 
Am a Protestant". He has also written much for his church 
papers, and several articles from his pen have been published in the 
magazines of the country. At the last session of the Conference, 
he was appointed to the pastorate of the First Church, at Red 
Wing, Minn. 

P. A. H. FRANKLIN 

P. A. H. Franklin was born in Norway, August 8, 1847. Al- 
though born of humble parentage and in lowly surroundings, he 
has forged ahead in the church and commercial affairs until he 
occupies a position of honor, usefulness and phenomenal success. 
When but a boy he was conscious of an ambition that could only be 
satisfied by the development of the rare gifts with which he was 
endowed. He was a student by nature and gave himself up to 
every book it was possible to obtain. He would work on his 
father's farm all day and study for hours at night so that he soon 
became proficient in all the common branches, although he did not 
have the advantages of a common school training. 

He was soon able to enter the University and Medical School 
of Norway. There he evinced rare ability and went to the head 
of his classes. Having completed a course in this institution, he 
turned his face toward America, and, on August 15, 1873, he 
reached Minneapolis. Hearing of the great mineral resources of 
Utah, he immediately went to that territory and began work as a 
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While engaged in this work he first had a sense of his sinfulness 
and need of salvation. After some resistence, he yielded to the 
gospel call and gave himself to Christ and was genuinely converted. 
It changed the whole course of his life. There at once came to 
him a burden for the salvation of those about him. The mining 
camps rang with his exhortations. He stood in the mines, on the 




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street, and wherever he had opportunity, pleading with men to be 
"reconciled to God." 

He attended one of our Mission Conferences in Salt Lake 
City and attracted great attention by his fervor, enthusiasm, burn- 
ing testimony and complete consecration to the work of Christ. 



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He was- given work as a missionary among his people, many of 
whom had fallen into the meshes of Mormonism. Success was 
with him from the very start, although his first field was barren 
and desolate, having no church, no membership, and no congrega- 
tion. He grasped the situation with a master hand. The people 
rallied to his inspiring call, gave of their means and were converted 
by scores. 

A church was built and all the elements of success sprung 
into existence as if by magic. Mr. Franklin soon became known 
throughout Utah. Courage and generalship never failed him and 
he became a leading figure in the Norwegian work. Wherever 
he went, churches were built, the powers of darkness suffered loss 
and the kingdom of Christ triumphed. Sent East to raise funds, 
the same success that was with him in Utah followed him 
among the staid and conservative chun hes of the eastern states. 
His story was so simple, unaffected and pathetic that great con- 
gregations were melted to tears and his appeals for help were 
responded to by contributions that aggregated thousands of dollars. 

He built one of the largest and most beautiful churches in 
Salt Lake City. There are but few points in Utah that have not 
felt his spiritual touch and been benefited by his rare financial skill. 
But Mr. Franklin, like many other leaders did not discriminate 
between his own financial interests and those of the church. He 
not only gave away the small salary he received at different points, 
but in his eagerness to carry on the work and multiply churches, 
he assumed responsibilities that were too great for any one man 
and which soon began to embarrass him in h:s ministry. Yet he 
never faltered for he felt that somehow the hand of Providence 
would lead him through to victory. 

In 1889 an opportunity came to him for acquiring some of the 
best mining property in Utah. Mr. Franklin regarded this as an 
answer to his prayers, and the way to an opening for him to meet 
all the obligations assumed for the church and to do even larger 
things for the cause of the Master. He at once went East and 
after laying the great project before some leading capitalists of 
Philadelphia, the Niagara Mining and Smelting Company was 
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million dollars was expended in purchasing and developing the 
properties of this new company. On April, 1892, Mr. Franklin 
incorporated 

The New Tintic flining & Smelting Company. 

These properties are in the Tintic Mining District, about six miles 
from Eureka, Utah, and are said to be among the best gold and 
silver producers in the inter-mountain region. The company had 
also acquired the title to the Honorine Group, at Stocton, Utah. 

Of these two properties there has been nearly $300,000.00 
and this money has been raised through the efforts of Mr. Franklin 
together with his business associates. The mines comprising the 
Tintic group have already paid over a million dollars in dividends. 
It is a noteworthy fact that this great success has not turned the 
heart or head of Mr. Franklin. He is the same kind hearted, 
generous, self-sacrificing man and has, with increasing fortune, not 
only liquidated the obligations assumed while in the ministry, but 
has since given thousands of dollars to charitable causes. 

He is not only in touch with the leading financiers of the 
country, but also with the leading men of Methodism. His dona- 
tions are not confined to any one point; he has responded to calls 
from different sections of the country and always delights in help- 
ing those in need, regardless of creed, color or condition. It is not 
often that one can turn from the ministry to business without loss 
of spiritual life, usefulness and power, but Mr. Franklin feels that 
this new field has been providentially opened and that now with 
hand as well as voice he can minister to those in want and thus 
contribute his part toward the spread of the kingdom and the glory 
of the Redeemer. 

PAUL DEAN BOUTELL 

Paul Dean Boutell was born January 3, 1837, at Bakersfield, 
Vt., son of William Boutell, a farmer. Mr. Boutell worked on his 
father's farm until the age of fourteen when he entered the Spald- 
win Academy, graduating with high honors at the age of seven- 



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teen. Immediately after leaving college, he started for Worcester, 
Mass., with but ten dollars. After paying his fare he had $2 left. 
Going to a leather factory he secured employment as an apprentice, 
receiving $5 per month. At the expiration of three years of 
apprenticeship his employers showed their appreciation of his good 



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service and appointed him foreman at a salary of $1000 per year, 
which they increased from time to time until it reached $3500 per 
year. 

After serving as foreman for seven years he bought an inter- 
est in the factory. This being just at the close of the war, when 
prices began to depreciate, he lost $8000 during the first year of 



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his partnership. When the war broke out, Mr. Boutell desired to 
enlist as a volunteer but his employer said that they could not spare 
his services. Soon after, he was drafted and his employers again 
refused to let him go. They hired a substitute to take his place. 

In 1872 he was stricken with typhoid fever which finally set- 
tled on his lungs making it necessary for him to seek the benefits 
of a western climate. Upon the advice of his physician he sold out 
his interest in the East and started for Minneapolis, where he located 
in the spring of 1872. He entered into partnership with George 
A. Hanson carrying on a furniture trade. After one year, Mr- 
Hanson retired from the firm, selling his interests to A. N. Trussell 
with whom Mr. Boutell carried on the business for three years 
when he sold out and started in business alone. This business has 
gradually increased until the large building which he occupies on 
Washington avenue is insufficient for its full and complete opera- 
tion. Consequently Mr. Boutell has recently leased the large build- 
in g being erected at the corner of First avenue south and Fifth 
street, where he will remove his business as soon as the structure 
is completed. 

Mr. Boutell identified himself with the Hennepin Avenue 
Chuch soon after reaching Minneapolis where he is still a consist- 
ent and influential member. 

WALLACE THOMAS GOODHUE. 

Wallace Thomas Goodhue was born in Jerico, Vt., August 31, 
1853. His father was John C. Goodhue, the youngest son of the 
Rev. T. Goodhue, who was a Methodist minister and a preacher 
of great power among the pioneers of his state. 

At about the age of twelve years the subject of this sketch 
became interested in religious questions and soon after was happily 
converted and united with the Methodist Church at St. Albans, Vt. 
He attended St. Albans Academy where he excelled as a student; 
he was active in Sunday School and young people's work and was 
appointed leader of a large society of }oung people for a number 
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In 1876 he married Miss Ellen Elizabeth Haight. This 
union has been blessed by one daughter who is about sixteen years 
of age, a young lady of rare and beautiful Christian character. 

In 1880 Mr. Goodhue moved to Minneapolis, joining the 
Hennepin Avenue Church by letter, but afterwards changing his 



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membership to Franklin Avenue Church. While a member of this 
church he spent one year in evangelistic work throughout the state, 
meeting with good results. In 1889 he had charge of Fairview 
Mission and the same year united with the Forest Heights Church. 
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starting the Free Breakfast Mission which has done so much to 
reclaim the lost. He was superintendent of the spiritual work 
during the B. Fay Mills meetings in Minneapolis. The same year 
he published several tracts which have been the means of doing 
much good. Among them are the following: "A Peculiar 
People"; "Established Facts Concerning Dancing"; "Assurance 
by the Word of God"; "Suggestions to Young Converts"; "The 
Light of the World"; "Submission and Why." 

Mr. Goodhue is engaged as a traveling salesman with the 
Century Piano Co., and is well known throughout the Twin Cities, 
having a large circle of friends. 

At present he is superintendent of Forest Heights Mission. 



M. LARA 




M. Lara, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in Androscoggan Co., Maine. 
He spent the first twenty years of his life 
on one of those rocky farms in the 
town of Turner. Then, concluding 
that was not the most desirable place for 
ayoung man to start in life, he migrated 
to Massachusetts where he taught school 
for a couple of years, then went to 
New Orleans. There he was engaged 
in mercantile business and sugar plant- 
ing with Mr. E. Heath for fifteen 
years, building up a large and lucra- 
tive business. Mr. Lara stood high in 
the estimation of the business com- 
munity there, as evinced by the several positions of official trust 
and honor held by him. 

During the war, particularly in 1863, the goverment distri- 
buted to the poor and destitute families in New Orleans about two 
hundred barrels of provisions a day in the shape of rations. He 
was superintendent of this distribution, and also held a position of 
trust in the Treasury Department in Louisiana during the war; he 



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was also a member of the senate of the first free state legistature 
of Louisiana. 

The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 not only broke up his 
business but caused the death of his youngest son, a remarkably 
bright boy of five years. This was so discouraging to Mr. Lara 
that he removed with his family to Kansas City in 1879, anc ^ * n 
1882 came to Minneapolis. He bought a half interest in the carpet 
business with Mr. A. H. Kenyon, then at 420 Nicollet Ave. When 
their partnership expired by limitation in 1885, he bought Mr. 
Kenyon's interest, and has since been doing business as M. Lara & 
Co. He rented the store where he is now located in the Sidle block, 
Nicollet avenue and Fifth street, before the block was built and 
while Mr. Sidle's residence was still on the ground. 

He has built up a large business in his legitimate line, being 
the only exclusive carpet and drapery house in Minneapolis. His 
trade not only takes in the Twin Cities but extends throughout 
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana and portions of Iowa and Wis- 
consin. He does business on the principle that there are other 
things in the world as well as money, and that character and rep- 
utation are quite as valuable as the former. On this basis he has 
built a reputation that it takes the best part of a lifetime to do. In 
the business of carpets, draperies and interior decorations the house 
of M. Lara &. Co., is acknowledged to stand at the head of the list. 

NATHANIEL McCARTHY 

Nathaniel McCarthy came to Minneapolis from Buffalo, N. Y., 
where he had been for nine years in the employ of Mr. H. H. Otis, 
in the Methodist Book Depository in that city. Mr. McCarthy be- 
gan at the foot of the ladder, his first position being that of errand 
boy. During the years in the employ of Mr. Otis, he was ad- 
vanced from one position to another, until we find him occupying 
the highest position in the gift of his employer. 

In the fall of 1883, a proposition to go into business in Minne- 
apolis was made him by Mr. Orton S. Clark, and after visiting 
Minneapolis at that time, these gentlemen decided to establish 
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spring. From that time until the present, the firm of Clark & Mc- 
Carthy has achieved success. Entering the city with an acquain- 
tance limited to two families, former Buffalo friends, these gentle- 
men, by strict attention to business, have won for themselves a 
place in the commercial interests of the community. A large and 
increasing mail order department testifies to the ability of the firm 
to satisfy their patrons residing at a distance. 

Mr. Clark retired from the business in February, 1892, Mr. 
McCarthy purchasing his interests. 




INTERIOR VIEW OF BOOK STORE 



The store is the rendezvous for clerg3*men of all denomina- 
tions. An examination of the books is a convincing reason why a 
great many people find pleasure and profit, in browsing in this best 
of book stores in Minneapolis. 

Mr. McCarthy has been identified with the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church for about twenty years. On coming to this city he 
placed his letter in the Hennepin Avenue Church, in June of 1884. 
In the following August he was elected one of the stewards of the 
church, and from that time to the present, has been related to 
the church in an official capacity, having served as Sunday School 
superintendent, president of the Young People's Society, and has 
held the office of treasurer of the church since 1800. 



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HOWARD AUGUSTUS BUTTERFIELD 




Howard Augustus Butterfield, son 
of Cornelius A. Butterfield, was born 
in Ft. Wayne, Ind., July 22, i860. He 
moved with his parents to Sandusky 
O., when but a small child and lived 
there until eight years of age. At 
this time his father, on account of fail- 
ing health, caused by too close appli- 
cation to business, removed to Viola, 
Minn., where he purchased a farm. 
Here Howard received a common 
school education and subsequently took 
an academic course of three years at 
Rochester, Minn. While here he was 
converted under the preaching of Rev. 
John Stafford and united with the church. After completing his 
education he returned to his home in Viola where he remained 
until 1886 when he took a position as county auditor's clerk in 
Rochester. This position he held for three years when it was 
terminated by a change in administration. 

In 1889 he came to Minneapolis and was employed as book- 
keeper for the Phelps Well & Wind Mill Co., being made mana- 
ger of the same in 1891. In 1894 he purchased the stock of the 
business and became a member of the firm of Dean & Co. He is 
an active member of Hennepin Avenue Church. In 1893 he was 
elected president of the Christian Endeavor Society and served in 
that capacity for two years. 



H. A. BUTTERFIELD 



JOSEPH HENRY JOHNSON 

Joseph Henry Johnson was born at Calais, Maine, January 17, 
1852, where his father, the Rev. C. H. Johnson, of the East Maine 
Conference, was stationed. Soon after he was stationed at Bangor, 
where his health failed and, upon the advice of his physicians, he 
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was long and tedious and he failed to rally from its effects. He 
died within six months after arriving in the frontier town. After 
the death of her husband Mrs. Johnson returned to Maine, where 
she remained until 1857 when she married Justin S. Dow and came 
back to Minneapolis to live, bringing her daughter, Kate, and her 




JOSEPH H. JOHNSON 

son, Joseph, with her. Thus it will be seen that the subject of this 
sketch is essentially a Minneapolitan. 

At the age of fifteen he was thrown upon his own resources 
by the death of his mother, thereafter making his home with the 
late Judge T. R. E. Connell, during which time he attended the 
public schools and business college. He has been a member of the 



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Methodist Church since 1868 having united with Centenary Church 
that year. 

v He was married February 15, 1857, to Miss Louise A. Lyon> 
daughter of Walter Lyon, of Uniondale, Pa. They have two sons, 
Walter Henry and Arthur Eugene, aged respectively sixteen and 
nine years. 

Mr. Johnson is an active and successful business man; he was 
early associated with George T. Vail, one of the pioneer under- 
takers of this city, and continued in the business thus established 
on Washington avenue until 1890 when it was removed to 614 
Nicollet avenue. In 189 1 Wm. H. Landis became a member of 
the firm, incorporating as The Johnson-Landis Undertaking Co. 
Mr. Johnson is not only an influential Methodist, but a prominent 
Mason, commanding the esteem of all who know him. 



REV. THOMAS BILLING 

Rev. Thomas Billing was born at 




Swinford, Rugby, England, Septem- 
ber 9, 1853. He was educated at 
Elma House school, Rugby, and united 
with the Wesleyan Methodist Church 
in 1871 and licensed as a local preacher 
in 1873. He served four years as 
District Evangelist in East Anglia and, 
feeling called to the work of the pas- 
torate, came to America in 1886. He 
was received as a member and local 
preacher in old Jackson Street Church, 
St. Paul, and by its Quarterly Confer- 



REV. THOMAS BILLING ence was recommended to the Annual 

Conference for admission on trial. He 
was subsequently received on probation in the Minnesota Conference 
and ordained Elder by Bishop Merrill in 1881. His appointments 
have been; Medford, Blooming Prairie, London, Wadena and 
Fisher. Mr. Billing is an able minister of the New Testament, he 
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student, and his preaching is sound doctrinally, true to the Wes- 
leyan standards, and full of instruction for the people. 

Though an Englishman by birth he is a thorough American 
in feeling and in perfect sympathy with the progressive spirit of 
the great country. 

His pastoral work is always faithfully performed. His own 
spirit is devout and prayerful, and hence his ministry is successful 
in the larger and better meaning of that much abused word. 



W. P. PICKARD 




W. P. Pickard was born in On- 
tario, Canada, in 1865, and was educated 
at Pickery College, Ontario, and 
Victoria Universit}', Canada. C01 - 
scious of a call to the great work of the 
ministry, he entered the Toronto Con- 
ference of the Methodist Church and 
received special ordination for mission 
work. Opportunities for greater use- 
fulness presented themselves in Min- 
nesota, and in 1889 he entered the 
Minnesota Conference. Soon after 
this he was married to Miss Eva Trot- 
ter of Canada who has been a true 
helpmate to him. 

He was first appointed to the Park Rapid Mission where his 
work was eminently successful, assuming such proportions that it 
was necessary for an assistant to be appointed and finally for the 
work to be divided into two circuits. Two churches remain as 
monuments to his two years' pastorate. 

Osakis was his next field, where he reorganized Villard cir- 
cuit. He held successful revivals and developed work which also 
necessitated division. His present charge is at Herman where he 
is laboring with characteristic success. He possesses in a marked 
degree, the qualifications of a successful pastor. 



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W. F. ROBERTSON 

W. F. Robertson, journalist, was born April 9, J 865, near the 
village of Lachute, Province of Quebec, Canada. His father emi- 
grated from Athol, Scotland, in 1820. He was one of the Robert- 
sons of Athol, once a celebrated and powerful clan. His mother, 





W. F. ROBERTSON 

Mary Sinclair, was a lineal descendant of Sir William Sinclair, Earl 
of Caithness and head of the House of Sinclair. At the age of fif- 
teen William was appointed Deputy Dominion Land Surveyor and 
was given charge of a partv to subdivide a tract of drown lands in 
the British Northwest territories. For two years he was private 

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secretary to Hon. Duncan Sinclair, Winnipeg. He then moved to 
the territory of Dakota and had a varied experience as merchant 
and journalist, starting the Free Lance newspaper in 1886. From 
1888 to 1890 he traveled extensively in Canada and the United 
States. In 1891 he was a regular correspondent of the Winnepeg 
Daily Tribune and was one of the commissioners appointed to set- 
tle the Okase Indian trouble. In 1892 he removed to northern 
Minnesota and became state attorney for the International Insurance 
Co., deputy register of deeds and deputy clerk of court for Hub- 
bard County and was also one of the editors of the Advocate, at 
Park Rapids, Minn., until the spring of 1894. At this time he was 
appointed secretary of the American Investment Co. and moved to 
Minneapolis where he was subsequently made first vice-president 
of the company. He is a member of the Board of Trade, editor of 
Investor's Guide and president, secretary and treasurer of a num- 
ber of religious and charitable institutions. 

He is an active temperance worker, believing that the saloon 
is the greatest evil of our civilization and that its destruction is the 
only hope of the country. He has recently united with Fowler 
Church and is one of its strong and effective workers. 

WILLIAM H. LANDIS 

William H. Landis was born in Tioga County, Penn., 
May 28, 1844. At the age of eighteen he entered the Union Army 
and served in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. At the close of his army ser- 
vice, imbued with the spirit of "Westward ho," he emigrated to 
Minnesota, taking up his first residence in Le Sueur, Le Sueur Co., 
Minn., remaining there for a year and a half, then removing to 
Farmington, where he took up the study of telegraphy and rail- 
road station accounts. He was in the employ of the St. Paul, Min- 
neapolis & Manitoba Railway for ten years as traveling auditor in 
charge of station agents' accounts, leaving this branch of the ser- 
vice to accept a position with the North Western Elevator Co., as 
superintendent of their Sioux Falls line of elevators. With the 
purpose of establishing business for himself, he purchased the in- 



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terest of George T. Veil, of Vail & Johnson, forming the present 
corporation of the Johnson-Landis Undertaking Co., of which he is 
secretary and treasurer. 

He is a firm believer in fraternal organizations from the fact 
that he is a member of the following: Upchurch Lodge, No. 13, 




WILLIAM H. LANDIS 



A. O. U. W.; Cecilian Council, No. 1367, Royal Arcanum; Fra- 
ternity Lodge, No. 62, I. O. O. F.: Ark Lodge, No. 176, A. F. 
& A. M.; and Geo. N. Morgan Post, No. 4, G. A. R. Dept. of 
Minnesota. He has been elected to many positions of honor and 
trust by the members of these orders. At present he is the Master 
of Upchurch Lodge, No. 13, A. O. U. W. ; Chaplain of Council No. 



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1367, Royal Arcanum, and Quartermaster of Geo. N. Morgan Post, 
No. 4. These official stations have come to him unsought through 
the almost unanimous request of his associates. 

Mr. Landis was converted in early life, uniting with the church 
at the age of sixteen and is at present connected with Franklin Av- 
enue Church, of which he is a member of the Board of Trustees. 

REV. S. E. RYAN 

Rev. S. E. Ryan was born May 6, 1861, in Cannonsburgh, 
Washington Co., Penn. His parents removed soon after 
his birth to Louisville, Ky., remaining there during the greater 
part of the civil war, so that the earliest recollections of the subject 
of this sketch are of martial music and marching men. 

His parents returning to Washington Co., he spent his boy- 
hood days among the hills of Pennsylvania, where, at the age of four 
years, he met his first great sorrow in the death of a loving mother. 
When twelve years of age he was converted and soon after felt 
his call to the ministry. Realizing that preparation was necessary 
for that work he attended Waynesburg College in 1875 and in 1876 
entered Allegheny College, located at Meadville, Pa., remain- 
ing there until the fall of 1880 when he was appointed as a supply 
to Salem, Clarion Dist., Pa. From this institution he has also re- 
ceived his degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts. 

At Meadville, the seat of the college, he was admitted on trial 
into the Erie Conference, in September, 1881; passed the course of 
study with credit; was admitted in full connection; elected and or- 
dained to orders, serving meanwhile with great acceptability, 
Brockport, Clarington, Karns City, Fagundus and Rouseville 
charges. 

When on his fourth year at Rouseville, he was transferred to 
the North Dakota Conference and stationed at Lisbon where he 
remained two years. In 1890, while pastor of the church at Bis- 
mark, he was elected Chaplain of the Senate, which position he 
creditably filled, making many warm personal friends among the 
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From Bismark he was removed to Jamestown where, bv his 
manly bearing, fervent spirit and earnest evangelical preaching, he 
entrenched himself in the hearts of the people and overcame, bv 
skillful and wise management, difficulties which had for years been 
a great hinderance to the work. 




REV. S. E. RYAN 



In the spring of 1893 he was appointed by Bishop Fowler to 
the Grand Forks District and the following year, there being a 
change of district boundries, he was appointed by Bishop Mallalieu 
to his present position, Presiding Elder of the Jamestown District, 
which embraces about two-thirds of the State of North Dakota. 



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In all the responsible and trying positions in which he has been 
placed he has shown the same Christian spirit of love and forbear- 
ance, yet never shrinking responsibility or failing to do his part to 
maintain the right, win victories for temperance, convince the err- 
ing of sin and lead the penitent to the cross of Christ. 

REV. C. M. HEARD, D. D. 

The Rev. C. M. Heard, D. D.. 
was to the itinerancy born, March 13, 
1840, the son of Rev. Stephen Heard, 
of the Erie Conference. His educa- 
tional advantages were such as were 
afforded by the best schools on or near 
his father's various fields of labor . He 
was licensed to preach in 1859 an ^ ad- 
mitted on trial into the Erie Conference. 
After thirteen years' service in this 
Conference, he was transferred to Min- 
nesota and stationed at Lake City 
where he had a successful pastorate of 
three years. Thence he was sent to REV. C. M. HEARD D. D., 
Anoka. After a delightful year there 

he was unexpectedly removed to the Hennepin Avenue Church in 
Minneapolis, and became its first regular pastor. This church had 
been organized the year preceding, but the social and business 
standing, culture, wealth, and Christian devotion of its members, ■ 
enabled it very soon to take rank with the best churches in the 
city. Its spiritual growth was specially noteworthy. The mem- 
bership in three years increased nearly fifty per cent. The lot 
where the present edifice now stands was bought and the taber- 
nacle was moved thereon. 

Mr. Heard's next field of labor was Winnebago City with a 
church not inferior in culture to the one he left, but burdened with 
an old debt of $1400 which was paid in the first year of his admin 
istration. A year later he sought a transfer to the Wisconsin Con- 
ference where he spent four years, and then, at the request of the 




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Anoka Church, consented to transfer back again to Minnesota. 
After three years at Anoka he was again brought in touch with 
Twin City Methodism by his appointment to Trinity Church, St. 
Paul. 

While here he made a literary venture and won the prize 
offered by Bishop Vincent for the best synopsis of the Disciplinary 
Course of Study for Preachers. In 1889 he became the pastor of 
Taylor Street, now Trinity, Church, Minneapolis. Under his ad- 
ministration this church became self-supporting, its membership 
steadily increased, its Sunday School became noted for its efficiency 
and the congregations outgrew the house of worship. 

The Minnesota Conference in 1890 organized its committees 
of examination and its student ministry into a Conference School 
of Theology, and Mr. Heard was placed at its head as chairman of 
the board of examiners. This new departure attracted the atten- 
tion of the church throughout the country, and is being substan- 
tially adopted by many other Conferences. Dr. Heard was a dele- 
gate to the General Conference of 1892, and the same year was 
honored by the Lawrence University of Wisconsin with the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity. As a member of the editorial staff of the 
Methodist Herald he is a frequent contributor to its columns. He 
is now at Monticello serving one of the substantial and historic 
churches of Minnesota Methodism. 

REV. EUGENE MAY, D. D. 

Dr. Eugene May's birth place is Mahaska Co., Ia., date, April 
10, 1852. His mother was of the Wright family of Indiana, his 
father, Col. Geo. May, a well known lawyer, orator, legislator and 
soldier. The Mays were of Virginia, proud to trace their ancestry 
to Patrick Henry. 

The person of this sketch was educated in the public schools 
of Iowa and Illinois, State University and McKendrie College in 
Illinois, completed the classical course, a graduate of the first class 
in the C. L. S. C, liberally taught by noted teachers in elocution, 
and has pursued a post-graduate Phd. His reputation as a scholar 
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At the early age of 19 he was junior preacher on an old time 
circuit in Illinois; twenty preaching places, a distance of one hun- 
dred and fifteen miles around. Sermons for the year, 180; travel, 
4,000 miles on horseback. In turn he has been a member of the 
South Illinois, Upper Iowa and North Dakota Conferences, filling 




REV. EUGENE MAY, D. D. 



leading appointments in each, and now pastor of First Church, 
Fargo, directing the building of a new church, the finest northwest 
of the Twin Cities. In '88 he was called to Seattle; in '89 received 
a flattering invitation to the pastorate of the 34th Street Reformed 
Church, New York; in '90 asked to accept a charge in Portland, 



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and in '92 elected president of the Red River Valley University. 
Each of these were declined. 

Dr. May's ability as a preacher is of a high order and he has 
never failed to draw large audiences. As a lecturer he is ex- 
celled by very few indeed. Bureaus have made him liberal offers, 
but he has never turned aside from his chosen field, the pastorate. 
As opportunity has afforded he has lectured widely and accept- 
ably; his lecture on "The Ascent of the Matterhorn Mountain 
in Switzerland" is one of the greatest on the platform to day. 



REV. GEO. W. WILLIS 



Rev. Geo. W. Willis was born in 
Ashland Co., Ohio., April 6, 1864, 
and it would seem as if he was hewn 
out of his very cradle into the preacher 
and evangelist. A tiny boy seeking to 
carry sheaves in the golden harvest 
field was typical of his early life. 

For the past ten years he has 
been an acceptable and well beloved 
minister in the Orthodox Friends' 
Church. For his entire ministry he 
has been in the evangelistic field with 
marvelous success. Pastors and news- 
papers have spoken in most cordial and 
complimentary terms of his work. 
Cleveland, O., is his present home and has been for a number 
of years. He is very highly regarded there. The Cleveland 
Leader says of him, "Were he to be heard and not seen he would 
seem like one of the old Methodist revivalists of half a century ago." 

He preaches without manuscript entirety; talks to the people 
and not at them, but in every case it is his aim to reach at once for 
the heart and lead immediately to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

May his life be prolonged many years to do gracious work for 
the Master. 




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REV. C. A. VAN ANDA, D. D. 

C. A. Van Anda was born in Northumberland Co. Pa., 
October 18, 1831. In 1833 his parents moved to Knox Co., 
O., where he was reared on a farm in the vicinity of Mount Ver- 
non. After a preliminary education in the public schools, he at- 
tended the Ohio Wesleyan University four years, graduating in the 
Biblical Department in 1854. He was received on trial in the Ohio 
Conference during the same year. He at once exhibited remarkable 
ability as a preacher. His remarkable power over men, both as a 
pastor and preacher, soon brought him into prominence and he 
has served some of the leading pastorates of the church. He has 
been an important element in the growth and development of 
Minneapolis Methodism, having served the Franklin, Centenary 
and First Church with great acceptability and success. 

During his recent pastorate at Emanuel Church, Evanston, 
111., he was called to Minneapolis to preach the funeral sermon of 
H. F. Lillibridge, ot the Wesley Church. He is well advanced in 
years, but is still in the effective rank and preaches w 7 ith all his old 
time fervor and power. 

JOHN W. THOMAS 

John W. Thomas was born in Steuben, Oneida County, New 
York, January 14, 1844, °^ Welch parentage. His early days 
were spent on the farm in Steuben and Bridgewater, New York, 
until 1857 when his parents moved to Bangor, Wisconsin. He 
obtained his education in the district schools until about sixteen 
years of age when he entered Sparta Academy. After finishing 
his course in this institution he entered the dry goods business, 
clerking in Sparta, Portage and Milwaukee. In 1869 he went to 
Winona, managing a branch store for N. H. Word & Co., whose 
principal place of business was located at Portage, Wisconsin. 
This same year he was married to Miss Jennett Jones, of Utica, 
New York, by whom he has three children; two daughters and one 
son. In 1870 he formed a co-partnership with Geo. F. Hubbard, 
of Winona carrying on a dry goods business continuing two years, 



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at the end of which time he started business for himself on Third 
street, Winona, where he remained for fifteen years and by his 
untiring energy and business ability, becoming one of the leading 
merchants of that growing young city as well as a respected and 
popular citizen. 




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In February, 1883, Mr. Thomas moved to Minneapolis. The 
popular dry goods house of which he is now sole proprietor, was 
established by Geo. W. Hale in 1867 and is the oldest house in 
this line in Minneapolis. Mr. Hale managed the business until the 
winter of 1882-3, when on account of failing health he was com- 
pelled to give up. Looking around for a young man to take an in- 



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terest in and assume the management of the business, then making 
rapid strides with the boom which prevailed in Minneapolis, he 
fixed on Mr. Thomas as the man of his choice, depending probably 
very much on Mr. Thomas' established reputation, his acquaintance 
with him being very limited. His judgment -was good, as after 
developments show. Mr. Thomas formed a co-partnership with 
Geo. W. Hale and his brother Jefferson M. Hale, in February, 1883. 
Geo. W. Hale died in 1889 and Jefferson M. Hale in October, 
1893. In February, 1894, Mr. Thomas purchased the interests of 
the heirs of Jefferson M. Hale and is now sole proprietor of the 
oldest and probably best known dry goods house in the Northwest, 
having by years of generous and honest treatment of its customers, 
won an enviable reputation. 

Mr. Thomas' parents were staunch Calvinists, earnest and con- 
sistent members of the Methodist Church. He has inherited much 
of their religious zeal endeavoring to live his religion in private, 
social and business life. He is an active member of the West- 
minster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, an Elder of the "Ses- 
sion" and closely connected with all branches of the work of this 
large and influential society. 

In his home, he is a man of quiet tastes, devotedly attached to 
his family and enjoying nothing better than a quiet evening with 
his wife and children about him. 

REV. CHAS. B. WILCOX, D. D. 

Charles B. Wilcox was born in Fox Lake, Wis., Nov. 24, 1851. 
His parents, David Thomas and Charlotte Bowser Wilcox emi- 
grated from England to the United States in 1849, settling on a 
farm in Wisconsin. They were devout Christians, industrious and 
thrifty, but at that time in meagre circumstances. They occupied 
what was then a sparsely settled portion of the state where few 
advantages offered for an education. During his childhood and 
youth Mr. Wilcox attended a district school in the country, but 
reached his majority with only the barest rudiments of learning. 
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Episcopal Church of which his parents were members. Soon after 
friends in the church urged him to prepare for the ministry, and 
convictions of duty to preach deepened. A few months after con- 
version he was granted an exhorter's license, and a little later 
urged to become a local preacher. These appeals of the church 
were resisted chiefly from a sense of incompetenc}^. In the mean- 
time he married and settled on a farm, but the conviction of duty 
to preach increased and a troubled conscience led him, at the age 
of 23, to begin preparation for the ministry. Having a wife, 
one child and very little means, he began a classical course in the 
first year of the preparatory department of the Northwestern Uni- 
versity at Evanston, 111. He pursued the course into the Freshman 
year, and then entered the Garrett Biblical Institute, completing 
the three years' course in two, and graduating in the spring of 1880. 

Dr. Wilcox immediately joined the Wisconsin Conference, 
where the first ten years of his ministry were spent. He began at 
Pleasant Prairie, a small circuit, receiving a salary of $600. His 
two most important appointments were Court Street Church, 
Jonesville, and First Church. Oshkosh. His pastorate in the lat- 
ter church extended over five years, during which a heavy indebt- 
edness of long standing was provided for, extensive improvements 
made on the property and the membership largely increased. At 
the close of this pastorate he received a call and was appointed to 
the First Church, St. Paul, Minn. 

This church, prominent by reason of historical associations and 
the character of its pastors had suffered from secession and the 
organization of an independent church by the popular pastor in the 
immediate vicinity. As a result First Church was greatly re- 
duced both in wealth and numbers. When Dr. Wilcox came, 
current expenses were far in arrears and the membership scattered 
and discouraged. He is now serving his fifth year as pastor. 
Confidence has been restored, all back current indebtedness paid, 
and the membership nearly doubled. 

Dr. Wilcox was ordained a Deacon in 1878 by Bishop Andrews, 
in Chicago; an Elder in 18S4 by Bishop Mallalieu, in Oshkosh, 
Wis. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him 
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J. D. MORRISON 

J. D. Morrison was born April 22, 
185 1, in the Province of Ontario. His 
father, John Morrison, and mother, 
Eliza Ann Empey, were among the 
pioneers of the province. His brother 
Duncan R. Morrison, of the third gen- 
eration is still living on the homestead. 
J. D. was converted in December, 1876, 
in the town of Madrid, N. Y. His 
early life was devoted to the Sunday 
School work. He was elected for 
three years in one of the rural district 
schools near his home. He was mar- 
ried to Chastin Hartwell, daughter of J- D - MORRISON 
Joseph and Seraphina Hartwell, of 

New York, on July 24, 1881, and moved to Dundas, Minn., where 
the}' lived two years. Lie then moved to Minneapolis, 2930 Fif- 
teenth avenue south, where he now resides. 

He was one of the first to organize a Sunday School near his 
home. Being a carpenter and builder, he drew the plans and made 
out the bill of material for the Bloomington Avenue Church. 
He has filled some of the important offices and still holds an 
official relation to said church. 

REV. SAMUEL G. SMITH, D. D. 

Rev. Samuel G. Smith was born in Birmingham, England, 
March 7, 1852. His parents removed to America in 1858. Rev. 
William Smith, M. A., a prominent minister in the Methodist church 
in Iowa, was his father. He graduated from Cornell College, 
Iowa, in the classical course in 1872, and subsequently received the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy from S3 r racuse University, on 
examination, in 1882. 

He entered the Upper Iowa Conference in the fall of 1872. 
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three years he resigned to enter the pastorate. His charges have 
been: Osage, la., two years; Decorah, la., two years. In i879he 
removed to St. Paul to become pastor of the First Methodist 
Church. In 1882 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the St. 
Paul District. In 1883 he was elected a delegate to the General 




REV. SAMUEL G. SMITH, D. D. 



Conference. In 1885 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from the Upper Iowa University. 

Failing health compelled him to retire from the St. Paul dis- 
trict in the fall of 1884. He spent most of the following year in 
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In 1885 he was reappointed to First Church, St. Paul, by 
unanimous request of that church. January 1, 1888, he resigned 
that pulpit and withdrew from the M. E. Church at the request of 
friends in St. Paul, and became pastor of the Peoples' Church of 
St. Paul, holding services in the Opera House until one of the 
largest and most complete edifices for working purposes in the 
United States was erected. 

Dr. Smith has been closely identified with the social and politi- 
cal life of Minnesota for fifteen years. He has served for three 
years on the school board, resigning, when president, on account of 
the pressure of other duties. For the past six years he has been a 
member of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, having 
been appointed b}^ three successive Governors. During the past 
three years he has been lecturer on Sociology in the University of 
Minnesota. He has also for many years lectured at Chautauqua 
assemblies and on other lyceum platforms. 

During several tours in Europe he has studied the life and art 
of the leading nations, including a tour devoted to penal and char- 
itable institutions in which he visited sixty of the leading prisons 
and asylums, by appointment of Gov. Nelson, as official visitor from 
Minnesota. 

He is a man of genial disposition, sympathetic heart and practi- 
cal turn of mind. He has no use for a theology which cannot be 
applied to the problem of every day life. As a preacher, he has 
but few equals. Having the advantage of a thorough education, 
coupled with unusual natural ability, he is exhaustless in his pulpit 
resources. His church, which is among the largest in America, is 
always a center of educational influence, Christian culture and 
spiritual power. — From National Encyclopedia of American Bi- 
ography. 

REV. J. C. HULL, B. D. 

Rev. J. C. Hull was born in Fayette Co., W. Va., Feb- 
ruary 24, 1856; his parents were Joseph and Rebecca Hull and 
his ancestors were from New England, having come there from 
Leeds, England, before the period of the Revolutionary war. A 



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branch of the family went from New England to Maryland and 
Virginia at an early date in Colonial history," and were leaders in 
the educational interests of the South, the Rev. Hope Hull, of the 
Southern branch of the family, having been one of the most eloquent 
Methodist ministers of the Asbury period, doing effective work in 
the Carolinas and Georgia, and was one of the founders of the 
university at Athens, Ga. The immediate ancestors of Rev. J. C. 
Hull were natives of the rugged mountains of Pendleton Co., Va., 
and were noted for their longevity, and an education quite in 
advance of their unfavorable environment. 

The subject of this sketch was ten years old at the time the 
free school system was introduced in West Virginia, and at once 
came to the front in the common schools. Without a dollar of help 
he made his own way in getting an education, working as a day 
laborer to purchase a library until he was able to teach school. 
He attended Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va., a part of two 
years, and after teaching in Fayette and Roane counties, went, in 
the fall of 1879, t0 Kansas, and, after teaching with success near 
Eureka and at Toronto, entered the South Kansas Conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church in March, 1881, and was ap- 
pointed to Madison, where he remained for two years, raising the 
money and securing the erection of a new church, and in general 
promoting the interests of the work. On the 21st of December, 
1 88 1, in Emporia, Kan., he was married to Miss Alice Anderson, 
who had been a pupil in his school at Toronto. He was next 
stationed at Yates Center, and after remaining there for two years, 
with excellent results to the church, was transferred to the West 
Virginia Conference, and stationed at Chapline Street, Wheeling, 
and after two years to St. Paul's Church, Fall River, Mass. 

During this time he had carried through courses of Hebrew 
under Dr. Harper, and of Greek under Dean Wright, of Boston, 
and in his second year at Fall River was graduated from the 
Chautauqua School of Theology. The hard study, together with 
very taxing pulpit and pastoral duties had at this time seriously im- 
paired the health of Mr. Hull, and on the advice of physicians, to 
avoid permanent injury, he took a supernumerary relation, at the 
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Minneapolis, Minn., where he spent several years in comparative 
rest. 

During this time he traveled among the mountain regions of 
the United States and did extensive newspaper writing. He had 
numerous flattering offers to reenter the pastorate, and rendered 




REV. J. C. HULL, B. D. 

at various times valuable service as a supply, going from Minnea- 
polis one winter to Des Moines, Iowa, where he supplied the pul- 
pit of the First Church for sixteen Sundays in succession. 

In the fall of 1893 he accepted the pastorate of the Clinton 
Avenue Church, St. Paul, and during his first year succeeded in 
turning from the church $24,000 of debt. The church had been 



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crushed and discouraged by the great burden; but under the pasto- 
rate of Rev. Mr. Hull it promises to become one of the strongest 
protestant churches of the Northwest. Mr. Hull is a fluent and 
ready speaker without notes, and has been a leader in the tem- 
perance ranks since his participation in the campaign for constitu- 
tional prohibition in Kansas in 1880. He has since taken an active 
part in the campaigns in West Virginia, Massachusetts, and Iowa; 
but he has studiously avoided political entanglements which*might 
impair his usefulness in the ministry, having declined the offer of 
the prohibitionists to nominate him for Congress for the First Dis- 
trict of West Virginia in the fall of 1886. 

Having been deprived of many advantages in his boyhood by 
the seclusion of the West Virginia hills, he has sought to make up 
for such lack of advantages by visiting and studying the methods 
and work of many of the leading colleges and universities of the 
country, and has also visited many of the most prosperous churches 
both of his own and of others denominations to hear great preachers 
and study the methods of successful church work. For this pur- 
pose he has visited the cities of Boston, New York, Brooklyn, 
Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapo- 
lis, Chicago, Kansas City and other places, selecting one or more 
of the largest and most successful churches in each place and mak- 
ing a study of the work, and in most cases remaining over a 
Sunday and hearing the sermons. 

The Rev. Mr. Hull is a close student, always a frequenter of 
the libraries and has about ready for the press a work entitled: 
"Our Nation's Destiny, or The Story of Ben Adam." He has 
also under preparation "The Life of Rev. Ernest Blackwood," 
which is based on his own struggles to get an education. Among 
his popular lectures are "Orators, Scholars and Eccentrics^of Meth- 
odism," and "Knocking Against the World." — From National 
Encyclopedia of American Biography. 

MART N. HILT 

Mart N. Hilt was born at Indianapolis, Ind., October 24, 1868. 
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Mis education was acquired in the public schools of Indianapo- 
lis. He completed the high school course. In 1888 he came to 
Minneapolis. He was engaged with his brother during the first 
year in the rental business. In 1889 he entered the fire insurance 
business for himself. He has since succeeded to his brother's rental 




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business. Under his careful direction the business has grown until 
it is one of the most representative in the rental and insurance line. 
He united with the Wesley Church in 1893. He has been secre- 
tary of the Sunday School for four years and is president of the 
Vincent Bible class. 



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REV. WILLIAM EVANS KING 

Rev. William Evans King was born 
in Vermillion Co., 111., September 
28, 1847. He came with his parents 
to Minnesota, May 14, 1855, an ^ spent 
his boyhood days on a farm near the 
village of Byron. He was converted 
at a revival conducted by Rev. Ezra 
Lathrop on the 14th day of February, 
1850, and at once joined the Methodist 
Church. He entered Hamline Univer- 
sity at Red Wing during the winter 
term of 1868. At the close of this 

term the school was suspended for lack 
WILLIAM EVANS KING o£ meang tQ continue . H e then at- 

tended other educational institutes in 
the state. He also taught school in the summer of 1869, and in 
the spring of 1870 and the winter of 187 1. 

In 1872 he entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, 
111., and graduated from the Theological Department May 6, 1880. 
When he arrived at Evanston he had just $17 and needed $21 to 
enter, but being strong and healthy he was not discouraged and for 
eight years maintained himself at school by hard work and indomit- 
able will. During his work in Evanston he and a fellow' student 
organized the Mission Sunday School at the corner of Wood and 
Twenty-first streets, Chicago, which was continued for three years 
and a half. This school developed into the present Lincoln Street 
Church of Chicago. 

In 1887 he became a member of the United States Life Saving 
Crew at Evanston, 111., and was given the position of stroke oar 
in the crew. April 1, 1879 De was promoted to the position of 
captain. 

He has a record of personally saving eight lives from drown- 
ing. One, a little girl who fell into a mill pond. He also swam 
and rescued from drowning in Lake Michigan, Robert Seaman, 
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missionary in India; next John Gillman whose boat was capsized 
in a terrible storm. 

July 10, 1878, he was married to Miss Jennie Alsip of Chicago, 
who had been the organist in his Mission Sunday School. In 
1880 he was appointed pastor of the M. E. Church at Windom, 
Minnesota, where he remained until September 1, 1882, when 
Bishop J. F. Hurst appointed him a missionary to Virginia City, 
Montana, where he remained three years. While in Montana he 
was stationed at Butte City, and also at Salmon City, Idaho. In 
1891 he was transferred to the Minnesota Conference and stationed 
at his old home in B\ 7 ron, where he has served a three years' 
pastorate. 

CHARLES JACOB GOTSHALL 

Charles Jacob Gotshall was born June 12, 1856, at Canton, 
O. His parents, Daniel and Rebecca, were both members of 
the First Methodist Church of Canton. His father was an honored 
soldier in the civil war and died in 1862 from sickness contracted 
at the battle of Shiloh. His mother, a woman of great faith and 
spirituality, died in 1891. 

Charles was educated in the public schools. He was diligent 
as a student and made good headway during the period devoted 
to his mental training. 

During a revival which occurred in the First Church, 1865, 
at Canton, O., he was convicted of sin, surrendered to Christ 
and was graciously converted. Hiram Miller was the pastor. He 
was married April 15, 1879, to Kate Steele, of Salem, O. Her 
parents were eminent Methodists also and she has always been 
active in church work. 

Mr. Gotshall came to Minneapolis in 1880. For two years he 
had charge of the collection department of a large, mercantile 
institution, after which he entered the employment of C. Altman 
& Co., of Canton, O, as manager of their Northwestern busi- 
ness. He had been connected with this company before coming 
West. In the fall of 1888, he moved to St. Paul and engaged with 
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While in St. Paul, he united with the Central Park Church, 
and by his steady, manly, Christian-going course, gathered about 
him a host of friends. In the spring of 1892 he returned to Min- 
neapolis to engage in the insurance business. Owing to long ex- 
perience in handling agricultural implements, he was prevailed 
upon to accept the management of the Northwestern Threshing 
Association, which position he now occupies. 

Mr. Gotshall is a member of the Wesley Church. He is an 
exhaustless worker, whether at his desk, his home, or upon the 
street. He is always absorbed in his business interests and con- 
tinually pushing them to the front. He does not wait until the iron 
is hot before he strikes, but strikes in order that the iron may 
become hot. He has three promising boys: Nelson Steele, Robert 
Warren, and Albert. His home is full of sunshine and he is hap- 
piest at its fireside. Those who know him hold him in high 
esteem for his faithfulness to any trust, his liberality, his candor 
and honesty, under all circumstances. 



JOHN WESLEY TOUSLEY 



John Wesley Tousley was born 
in the town of Old Salisbury, Litch- 
field Co., Conn., on the 17th day of 
September, 1824. His parents were 
natives of the same state and zealous 
members of the Methodist Church. 
They were possessed of great piety 
and raised their children under strictly 
moral and religious influence. 

J. W. Tousley was converted and 
united with the Methodist Church in 
the town of Sharon. Conn., in the year 
1 84 1, being at that time 17 years of 
age. It was under the preaching of 
the Rev. Hart. F. Pease, of the New 
Conference, that he was brought to make a public confession 
faith in Christ, and has never lost his zeal or loving confidence 




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which then brought him to the foot of the cross. He has been 
twice married. His first wife was Miss Samantha E. Wells ot 
Troy N. Y., by whom he had five sons and one daughter. His 
marriage to Miss Wells was solemnized in the city of Troy on 
December 15, 1847, by Rev. George C. Bancroft, known as the 
sailor preacher. In August, 1890, after a long and useful life, this 
mother and wife, passed over to the home beyond, leaving a de- 
voted husband and five married sons to mourn her loss. 

In October, 1893, he married the second time to Mrs. Penelope 
Ferrell of Louisville, Ken., widow of the late Col. Lewis H. Ferrell 
of that state . 

He received his education at Amenia Seminary at the time Rev. 
D. W. Clark was principal and who afterward was known as 
Bishop D. W. Clark. In the year 1843 he moved to West Stock- 
bridge where the Rev. George Bancroft was pastor. He there 
united with the Methodist Church and was chosen in 1845 as Sun- 
day School superintendent which position he filled for two years, 
when he moved to Troy, New York, transferring his membership 
to the North Second Street Church which was under the pastorate 
labor of Rev. S. D. Brown. Was there appointed class leader 
serving the church in that capacity for five years. Being seized 
with a desire to go West he soon determined to seek a new home 
and in 1857 he moved to Omaha, Neb., where he entered upon 
a pioneer life, tilling the soil and penetrating into the wilds of a 
new country. The first thing however, was to find a church, 
which was soon done. The First Methodist Church with Rev. I. 
M. Chivington as pastor was made his church home and for twenty 
years he served as class leader; was Sunday School superintendent 
for eleven years, trustee and steward for fifteen years. 

In March, 1875, liie received license to exhort and the follow- 
ing year was licensed by the Nebraska Conference to preach. 
He was chosen leader of what was then known as "The Praying 
Band" and a wonderful evangelistic work was done, in the out- 
posts of the surrounding country. This work was untiringly 
carried on for five years, bringing hundreds to Christ. In the 
spring of 1879 the spirit of emigration brought him to find a home 
in the city of Minneapolis, Minn., where he immediately indentified 



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himself with what was then known as Centenary Church but 
which has since built a new church edifice and assumed the name 
of Wesley Church. Rev. Dr. C. A. VanAnda was then pastor in 
charge. He was appointed class leader serving nearly three years, 
when he became interested in the organization of the Simpson 
Church and transferred his membership to that body in the year 
1882, becoming a charter member. Rev. I. G. Teter being 
pastor, appointed him class leader ; he was also chairman of the Build- 
ing Committee until the church was finished. Was a member 
here four years, and then returned to his first love the Centenary and 
again assumed, under Rev. H. H. French, the duties of class leader. 
Is now residing in Minneapolis where he is successfully engaged 
in real estate business and is president of the Crystal Lake Ceme- 
tery Association which position he has held for the last thirteen 
years. He has held the office of local preacher since the year 
1875 g™ n g largely of his time and means to the advancement of 
the Lord's cause and the promotion of all moral reform. The tem- 
perance cause has found in him a strong and earnest advocate, as 
well as a zealous worker. 

A. B. FELGEMAKER— "CHURCH ORGANS." 

"Music hath charms to soothe the 
savage breast," but it delights and fas- 
cinates the educated tastes of the most 
refined of every civilized nation. And 
of all musical instruments the pipe or- 
gan, which has been so aptly styled 
the "King of Instruments," ranks first 
in the musical world. What church is 
completely furnished without one of 
these grand instruments? In briefly 
reviewing the history and progress of 
the organ during the present century, 
one cannot fail to be impressed with 
the great and manifold improvements 
which have been made both in its construction and tone-producing 
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After 35 years of practical experience in the manufacture 
of church organs, the organs built by A. B. Felgemaker, of Erie, 
Pa., have attained a standard of excellence, which cannot be sur- 
passed, and are second to none. They combine a richness, fulness and 
delicacy of tone, and by the arrangement and selection of stops, 
which are used in Mr. Felgemaker's organs, the greatest variety 
of power and effects are obtained, rarely, if ever, found in organs of 
similar cost. 

In the comparatively new and extensive plant, built expressly 
for the manufacture of organs, this concern is enabled to do work 
of the very highest grade. 

This firm being determined to uphold and extend its reputa- 
tion to all parts of the country, allows no instrument to leave its es- 
tablishment, that cannot bear the most critical examination and 
stand the severest tests. 

It would be well for churches or persons desiring pipe 
organs to address A. B. Felgemaker, Church Organ Builder, 
Erie, Pa. 

CHURCH FURNISHING 

It is an excellent thing to have a church complete in every 
architectural detail both in exterior and interior appearance, and 
too much praise cannot be given to some of our painstaking archi- 
tects who have made a life study of church building, and are now 
giving the results of their study to the churches of our time ; but 
there is a matter of quite as much importance as this, which is too 
often hastily decided upon, and mistakes are made which are diffi- 
cult to eradicate. 

Well-devised, carefully made church furnishings are a source 
of continual and lasting comfort, while ill-shaped, poorly-constructed 
and ill-devised furnishings are a source of daily annoyance. 

There is a world of difference between something that is al- 
most good enough and that which is really perfect in construction 
and beyond the reach of adverse criticism. 

The best methods of seating and furnishing churches are as 
much the result of experience and painstaking on the part of man- 



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ufacturers devoting themselves to this special line of business, as 
are the architectural details of a church building. 

There are a few concerns in the countiy who have devoted a 
quarter of a centur} r or more to the practical details of church fur- 
nishings. They have not only been able to acquire a large amount 
of useful and practical information in this line from their own wide 
and varied experience, but they have also been brought in con- 
tact with the ideas of the very best architects in the world; and 
when this experience is combined with ample facilities for prosecut- 
ing the business, such a concern may be intrusted with this class of 
work with the most implicit confidence in their ability to produce 
results which will be entirely satisfactor}^ to church people. 

It is too often true that a difference of a few dollars in the 
original cost is allowed to out-weigh the advantages which could 
be derived from placing contracts for this kind of work with con- 
cerns of large experience. 

It is far from our purpose to enumerate in this work the mis- 
takes and failures that have been made by churches in the Twin 
Cities in this particular, but it is gratifying to know that some of 
our churches have been fortunate enough to place their orders with 
good concerns, and to secure work which has been, and is, thor- 
oughly satisfactory, and we may be pardoned for calling attention to 
the work done in the Wesley Church, in Minneapolis, by the 
Globe Furniture Co., of Northville, Mich., and citing our friends 
to it as one of the most satisfactory pieces of work in this line 
which has ever been done in the Twin Cities. 

YERXA BROTHERS 

Prior to the incorporation of this firm, F. R. Yerxa, the 
younger brother, conducted a grocer} r business on Seventh street 
and Nicollet avenue. Under his management the business became 
so profitable that the present company was formed with the view 
of building it into one of the great commercial houses of the city. 
That this purpose has been fully consummated is seen in the mag- 
nificent proportions it has already attained. No longer able to 
confine it within one building, it has been divided into three busi- 



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ness places in Minneapolis, namely: one at the corner of Nicollet 
avenue and Tenth street; one at the corner of Nicollet and Fifth 
street, and one at 115-117 Central avenue. These stores are always 
centers of the greatest activity and prosperit} 7 . The principal store 
at Nicollet and Fifth street is constantly crowded with people. Five 
years ago, the company extended its business to St. Paul where 
they have located their cracker and candy factories and spice mills. 
Fifty hands are employed in this factory alone while 235 are re- 




INTERIOR VIEW OF YERXA BROS. & CO.'S STORE 



quired to operate their business in both cities. They have demon- 
strated the wisdom and success of the cash basis in trade, upon 
which principle their business stands secure. Their groceries and 
vegetables are always fresh and the very best the market either at 
home or abroad can afford. The houses are all manned by clerks 
who are polite and attentive to the wants of the public. 

The success of this business is a monument to the unflagging 
energy, indomitable purpose, financial skill and phenomenal exec- 
utive ability of its promoters. It should also illustrate to young 



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men, the truth of the adage that "patience and perseverance con- 
quer all things."' This business did not leap to its present mammoth 
proportions in a single day. It is the product of years of steady 
growth and of unremitting application to its highest interests. It 
is not the result of a rich legacy, but of hard struggle and unweary- 
ing patience and that determination which surmounts all difficulties. 

This article is not meant to be in biographical form, else it 
might be shown that the Yerxa brothers have made their way 
through life by their own unaided efforts; that they began at the 
bottom and have gone forward until thev at present control the 
largest arocerv business in the Twin Cities. 

Their father is an honored member of the First Baptist Church 
of Minneapolis, and their business is conducted upon the principles 
inculcated in them in early life. 

I. F. RIVERS 



J. F. Rivers was born in Mar- 
quette. Mich., in 1855. Both his par- 
ents were French Canadians and Ro- 
man Catholics. He lived in Michigan 
until he was of age. He came to 
Minneapolis in 1878. While in Min- 
neapolis he was married, in 1880, to 
Miss Estella Champlin, a Christian of 
the genuine tvpe, always loyal to 
Methodism, the church of her choice. 
In 1S81 Mr. Rivers went to Green Bay, 
Wis., and engaged with the Ft. Howard 
Iron Works. In 1884 he went to 
J. F. RIVERS Kaukanna to take charge of the Led- 

vard Iron Works. He occupied this 
position until he accepted a place of trust in the City Fire Depart- 
ment. He at the same time was engaged in the sewing machine 
business, also handling pianos and organs. In the spring of 1891 
with four others he formed the Kaukanna Machine Co., with a cap- 
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assumed large proportions. Disposing of his interests in this com- 
pany, he returned to Minneapolis and purchased the bicycle and 
machine shops of H. Johnson, in which business he is still en- 
gaged at 633 First avenue south. 

After entering this business he purchased his present beauti- 
ful home at 3255 Fourteenth avenue south. Since coming to 
Minneapolis he has been converted and with his wife belongs to 
the Bloomington Avenue Church. He is chairman and treasurer 
of the Board of Trustees and a member of the Board of Stewards. 

R. S. GOODFELLOW & CO. 

This business house was established in 1878 by Messrs. Good- 
fellow & Eastman, who conducted it until 1886, when Mr. Eastman 
retired. W. S. Ray then became a partner. In February, 1893, 
Mr. Ray died. After the settlement of Mr. Ray's estate, Mr. 
George Loudon became a partner in February, 1894. 

Mr. Goodfellow is a native of Troy, N. Y., but has resided in 
Minneapolis since 1878. Mr. Loudon is a native of Scotland, 
where he received his commercial education in one of the largest 
Scottish mercantile houses. He came to this city in the fall of 
1882. He came direct to Minneapolis and was engaged the day 
after he arrived by Messrs. Goodfellow & Eastman as their book- 
keeper, and has advanced with the business until he has obtained 
his present position. Mr. Goodfellow attends to the store proper, 
while Mr. Loudon takes charge of the office and financial depart- 
ment. 

We mention Mr. Loudon thus prominently in connection with 
this firm, as he is a member of the congregation of the Hennepin 
Avenue church, of which his wife is an active member. He is in 
thorough sympathy with the church, and one of its generous sup- 
porters. 

The firm started business in the store now occupied by Nicol, 
the tailor, across the way from the present location, at 247-249-251 
Nicollet avenue. Under the careful, prudent and conservative 
management of Mr. Goodfellow, the business has gradually in- 
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and most favorably known of the many splendid business houses 
throughout the Northwest. 

Their business of exports and retails of drygoods, cloaks, furs 
and draperies has been built up on the basis of always placing be- 
fore their customers the very best goods for the money, that the 
markets of the world have to afford. Trashy, showy goods have 
always been avoided as unsatisfactory to both buyer and seller. 




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Time and attention have been devoted entirely and strictly lo 
their business as drygoods merchants, despite the modern tendency 
to turn everything into department stores. About one hundred 
and twentv are employed, some of w r hom have been with the firm 
since they first started, and many of them over ten years. Duly 
qualified managers are in charge of the various departments. 
They are always among the first in the West to display newest 
goods and latest novelties. Whatever is advertised is ahvays to be 
found as described, consequently, firm reliance has come to be 
placed on every movement of theirs by a discerning public. 



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ERNEST F. SMITH 



Ernest F. Smith was born August 
4, 1868, Pekin, 111. Finished his educa- 
tion at U. S. Naval Academy, Anna- 
polis, Md., and Iowa Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He joined 
the church at Pekin, 111., in 1883. Both 
parents were Methodists of long stand- 
ing. He came to St. Paul in the spring 
of 1887, took a position with St. Paul 
Storage Forwarding and Implement 
Co. He came to Minneapolis January 
1, 1889, as secretary and treasurer of 
Smith Wagon and Implement Co. He 
united with Hennepin Avenue Church 
by letter in 1889. September 1, 1890, 
the partnership of Smith & Zimmer was formed. 




ERNEST E. SMITH 



L. W. ZIMMER 



L. W. Zimmer was born October 16, 1868. Until December, 
1889, he lived at Pekin, 111., where he was connected with the 
Pekin Plow Co., manufacturers of plows and other agricultural 
implements. Upon coming to Minneapolis, he became a member 
of the firm of Smith & Zimmer. He united w r ith the Hennepin 
Avenue Church in 1800. 



SMITH & ZIMMER 



Smith & Zimmer succeeded to the wholesale business of The 
Smith Wagon and Implement Co., September 1, 1890. The part- 
nership is composed of Ernest F. Smith and Luppo W. Zimmer, 
who were both connected with the corporation they succeeded; 
the former, in the capacity of secretary and treasurer, and the lat- 
ter being in charge of the books of the concern. Both are pecu- 
liarly fitted for the business that they have chosen, as they are sons 



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L. W. Z1MMER 



of manufacturers of farm implements 
and wagons, and had been connected 
with the manufacture and distribu- 
tion of this class of goods for several 
years before the present partnership 
was formed. They were, without 
doubt, the youngest men ever forming 
a partnership for the conducting of a 
wholesale business, both being just 
past their twenty-first year. 

By constant application and per- 
sonal attention, the business has grown 
from one of the smallest to one of the 
largest of its kind in the Northwest. 
The "Smith" Wagon and Pekin Plows 
manufactured at Pekin, 111., a corporation in which both Mr. Smith 
and Mr. Zimmer are stockholders, form the foundation on which 
the large trade has been built. Avery cultivators, carriages and 
buggies are handled, and in 1891, foreseeing the phenomenal de- 
mand for bicycles, they were added to the line; being first in the 
field and giving that branch their careful attention, have easily held 
the. position they still occupy, that of being the largest bicycle house 
in the Northwest. Their particular wheel is one made for them by 
one of the largest factories, and is called the "S. & Z. Special." 
They also have other wheels on which their trade is large. 

Early in the spring of 1894, threshing machines were also 
added to their line and the first season's experience has proven very 
satisfactory, and demonstrated the superiority of their machines, 
the Avery engine and separator. Unless some unforseen disaster 
overtakes the business of this firm, the future holds greater success 
for them. 



A. L. FUNK 

A. L. Funk was born in Putnam Co., O., October 22, 1863. 
At the age of six years his parents moved to Kansas, where he 
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State Normal School in Kansas, and 
was made principal of his home school. 
He then entered the banking and loan 
business in Kansas. In 1889 he be- 
came general agent of the old Manito- 
woc Manufacturing Company with 
headquarters at Omaha. In the win- 
ter of 1891 he came to Minneapolis as 
Northwestern salesman, in which po- 
sition he continued until the factories 
of the compan}' T were destroyed by fire. 

A new company was at once 
formed, and on account of his former 
valuable services he was given the po- A. L. FUNK 

sition of general superintendent of sales 

in the Northwest, with headquarters in Minneapolis. Mr. Funk 
a young man of striking business energy, but is never so occupied 
with business as to forget the moral principles upon which it should 
be founded. Although much of his time is spent in traveling, he 
is faithful in his relations to the church, and avails himself of every 
opportunity to enjoy its services. When but a small boy he was 
impressed with his duty to preach the gospel, and the hope still 
lingers with him that circumstances will yet enable him to follow 
this high calling. 

P. G. HANSON 

P. G. Hanson was born in New York City, March 20, 1856. 
When but three years of age, his parents moved into the country 
on a small farm near the village of South Port, Conn. During 
his earlier years, young Hanson assisted his father in work on 
the farm. In 1877 he located in Minneapolis. Soon after reaching 
this city, he engaged as a clerk in one of the largest retail grocery 
stores. 

After six months' clerkship, his employers, who were then 
conducting five retail groceries, made a proposition to sell to him 
and his brother the stock in the store located at 1304 Fifth street 




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south. The offer was accepted and a note was given drawing in- 
terest at twelve per cent, for the entire amount of stock. This 
partnership continued until the fall of 1882, when a dissolution was 
effected by the junior Hanson who sold his interest to his partner. 
In the spring of 1886, having felt the need of more commodious 




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quarters in order to meet the growing demands of his trade, he 
procured the rental of the store at 416 Second avenue south where 
he is still engaged in business. On September 25, 1887, he pur- 
chased the stock and fixtures of the retail market at 404 Second 
avenue south and since that time has conducted and managed 



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the largest and most prosperous combined retail grocery and meat 
market in the city. 

Mr. Hanson is a man of untarnished Christian character. In 
youth he was taught to revere and respect God and religion and 
from his earliest days has been a constant church attendant. 

His parents, while in New York City, were members of the 
Moravian Church, but upon moving to the country they affiliated 
with the Congregational Church of South Port and became very 
active members. When but twelve years of age, Mr. Hanson 
united with the same church and lived a consistent Christian life 
and remained in its membership until he came West. On arriving 
at Minneapolis he allied himself with church people and regularly 
attended services at the Plymouth Congregational Church, and so 
continued until some time after the establishment of the business 
in the south part of the city, when, for reasons of convenience and 
other influences, he attended either the Second Congregational or 
the Seventh Street Church. Finally, on January i, 1879, ^ e joined 
by letter the Seventh Street Church, now Thirteenth Avenue 
Church, and at once became closely identified with its work and 
success. He has ably filled various official positions in the church 
for the past fifteen years and has been Sunday School superintend- 
ent for the past seven years, which position he still occupies. 

JOHN A. LANE 

John A. Lane was born near Cablentz, German} T , on Nov- 
ember 4, 1870, son of John and Kate Lane, who were members 
of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1872 his parents emigrated 
to America and settled in Minnesota. His early education was 
acquired in the district schools. His parents died during his boy- 
hood, and at the age of eleven he was alone in the world. Al- 
though he was a stranger in Minneapolis he went to work with 
determination to find employment. He was not disappointed for 
he soon obtained a situation in Duncan's Nursery in which he con- 
tinued for three years. 

While thus engaged he attended the city schools during the 
winter, and the last winter took a course in the Curtiss Business 



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College from which he graduated. He 
then kept books for a fuel company,, 
after which he was employed in the 
drug store of W. A. Coffin. He still 
holds this position. 

While Mr. Lane was engaged in 
work on the nursery he attended some 
revival services that were being held 
in the Camden Place Church, under 
the pastorate of Brother Atkinson. It 
was during these meetings that his 
faith in Romanism was shattered and 
he was able to receive Christ as a 
personal Saviour. He united with that 
church and has since been a very im- 
portant factor in its development; he has been an enthusiastic 
worker in the Christian Endeavor Society, and has served as its 
secretary and president, which latter position he still holds. He 
has also been a leading spirit in the Sunday School, having served 
as secretary, treasurer and teacher. Two years after he united 
with the church he was given an Exhorter's license, which he still 
holds with credit to himself and blessing to the church. 



L. A. BROWN 

L. A. Brown was born near Ypsilanti, Mich., August 2, 1848. 
His parents were thorough-going Methodists, his grandfather hav- 
ing died at the age of ninety-four, praising God with his latest 
breath. Mr. Brown attended the public schools, the Friends'' 
Academy, near Adrian, and the State Normal at Ypsilanti, from 
which he graduated in 1887. 

Early in life he was thrown entirely upon his own resources; 
but his energy and ambition were greater than all the difficulties 
and we find him quietly but steadilv advancing. He was so intent 
upon acquiring an education that he would work on the farm dur- 
ing vacations, sell books or do anvthing that was honorable. Fin- 
ally he was able to pass a teacher's examination, and he then 



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taught school. In 1879 ne 
came to Glyndon, Minn., and 
took charge of the graded 
schools there, continuing in 
this position for four years, 
and was then elected county 
superintendent of schools in 
Clay county. This was also 
a four years term. At the 
expiration of this official 
position he became a travel- 
ing salesman for school and 
church furniture. In 189 1 
he settled in Minneapolis, as 
manager for the Northwest 
of the Manitowoc Manufac- 
turing Co. At the close of 
the year, he organized the 

Twin City School Supply Co., which has the only stock of Kinder- 
garten materials and teachers' aids west ot Chicago. In connec- 
tion with this the company handles all school supplies, maps, charts, 
globes and books needed by school boards or teachers. Its large 
and well assorted stock may be found at the store rooms, on the 
seventh floor of the Boston Block. 

In 1891, Mr. Brown was married to Mrs. Lydia A. Hewens, 
of Ypsilanti, Mich. She is associated with her husband in busi- 
ness, and is no small factor in its success. They are members of 
the Fowler Church. 




L. A. BROWN 



HENRY M. FARNAM 

Henry M. Farnam, lawyer, resides at 84 Twelfth street south. 
His professional office is at 635 Temple Court. For ten years, 
1868 to 1878, he was engaged in newspaper work, serving on the 
Albany Argus, New York Tribune, Cincinnati Inquirer and the 
Chicago Inter Ocean. 



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He studied law with the attorneys of the Central Vermont 
Railroad Co., and came to Minneapolis in 1882, where he has been 
in the active law practice ever since. 

In 1884 he was married to Miss Carrie Chaffee, daughter of 
the Rev. J. F. Chaffee, D. D. This union has been blessed with 
four children: Lynn C, Earl, Julian and Laura. 





HENRY M. FARNAM 



Mr. Farnam is a member of the Hennepin Avenue Church, 
also secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Fowler Church and 
secretary of the Asbury Hospital. 

He is a lawyer of unusual ability, a Methodist of the helpful 
type and a citizen known for his patriotism and progressive spirit. 



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J. D. OGDEN 



J. D. OGDEN 



J. D. Ogden, son of B. V. Ogden, 
was born in Dubuque, la., March 7, 
1S62. His father was born in New 
Jersey in 181 7 and died in i\ckley, la., 
in 1867. His mother, Nancy Furman, 
was born in Pennsylvania, November 
25, 1820. She is at present living with 
her son at his residence, 3419 Eigh- 
teenth avenue south. After his father 
died his mother had a hard struggle 
caring for the family, yet her seven 
children rallied around her and did all 
within their power to provide for the 
necessities of life. When but twelve 
years of age the subject of this sketch 

came to Minneapolis where he has since lived most of the time. 
He returned to Iowa in 1876 and from that time was the principal 
support of the family. He attended school when he could, but his 
opportunities were limited. He is, however, a wide-awake busi- 
ness man and an inveterate lover of books. 

He commenced in the harness trade in the spring of 1880. 
Soon after this he was stricken with the sense of guilt, and found 
peace in Christ. He returned to Minneapolis in 1883, and started 
in business on Cedar avenue with less than $135; he has been in 
the same building ever since, with three additions, necessitated by 
increase in trade. 

Engrossed in worldly pursuits he became careless about church 
matters, but was reclaimed through the work of the Y. M. C. A., 
and united with Centenary Church. Afterwards he changed his 
membership to the Twenty-Fourth Street Church where he was 
steward and Sunday School teacher for several years. In 1888 he 
moved to Bloomington Avenue Church, in which he has served in 
various official relations, being Sunday School superintendent at 
the present time. 



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April 8, 1891, he was married to Lulu B. Cook, a noble 
Christian woman, strongly attached to the church and foremost in 
every good work. 

JOHN DOUGLASS 

In the beautiful village of Ashkirk, Scotland, seven miles from 
Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott, near the romantic Tweed- 
side and not far from where the Aylewater mingles its silvery 
stream with the rippling waters of the Teviot, was born, in 1823, 
John Douglass. His ancestors were sturdy Presbyterians; his 
father, John Douglass, having descended from one of the border 
Douglasses, who played their part in the heroic deeds of Flodden 
Field and Dunbar, and whose martial spirits were kindled by the 
ballads of Chevy Chase and the border wars. His mother, Mary 
Hood, belonged to that family of Hazeldean, enshrined by Burns in 
his immortal song. 

Business misfortune overtaking the once prosperous father, he 
determined to retrieve his fortunes in the New World, whither he 
went in 1831, settling in Montreal, his wife and three sons, James, 
John and George, following him, sailing from Greenock in the sum- 
mer of 1832. After a voyage of six weeks, they joined the hus- 
band and father at Quebec, whence the}< r took the steamboat for 
Montreal. 

The family now in their new home united themselves with the 
old Presbyterian St. Gabriel Church, one of the pioneer Protest- 
ant churches of the city. Soon after their coming to Montreal, 
Mr. Adam Miller, an earnest worker and visitor in connection with 
the Methodist church, called at their home and invited the three 
Scotch boys to attend the Sabbath School. This marked their 
first introduction to Methodism. They continued their attendance 
at the Presbyterian church, but as the }< T ouths grew, parents and 
children little by little drifted into the Methodist fold, lured b}^ the 
warmth of its services and the Christian devotion of its members. 

Soon after their arrival at Montreal, the three brothers entered 
the British and Canadian school, where they pursued their studies 
for a number of vears. That school was favored with the services 



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of Mr. Minshall, a teacher of great scholarship and professional 
ability. Subsequently John pursued the course of the Edinburgh 
University under a private tutor. He was converted in his four- 
teenth year, and forthwith united with the Methodist church, being 
the last one of his family to leave the Church of Scotland. In 




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1842 he was licensed as a local preacher. He pursued his studies 
and acted as book-keeper in a book store and also in a large im- 
porting dry goods establishment. He was a natural student. 
While others were resting or recreating, he was all ablaze with the 
sublimities of higher education. He would often pore over his 
books until two or three o'clock in the morning. Upon entering 



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the ministry he began a special course in theology, under Rev. 
Matthew Rickey, D. D., one of the most eminent scholars of Can- 
adian Methodism. 

In 1845 he took regular work under the Chairman of the 
District, and in 1S46 united with the British Conference in which 
he remained until his Conference merged into the Canadian Con- 
ference. He maintained this relation until 1869, when he came 
to Minnesota. For a number of years prior to this he had been 
disabled from preaching by lung trouble. Upon coming to Minne- 
sota he settled in Winona, remaining there six years. During this 
period he was most diligent in everything that pertained to the 
growth and prosperity of the church. Upon arriving there he 
found one little struggling Methodist Church, but when he left 
there were three. It seems that his coming to Minneapolis in 
1875 was providential in many respects, but in none more than in 
the courage and able counsel he imparted to the enterprise, then 
in its inception, of organizing and establishing the Hennepin Ave- 
nue Church. He recognized the opportunity as the voice of God, 
and gave it hearty and unfaltering support. Among those familiar 
with these early days, and the important part Brother Douglass 
played in the formation of the new church, he is familiarly referred 
to as its father. In 1878 he was appointed special agent of the 
Treasury Department of the United States, which position he oc- 
cupied with great honor for seven years. Since then he has been 
engaged in the building and loan business. 

It would be interesting to follow out the history of the Doug- 
lass family and give in detail, not only the life of the subject of this 
sketch, but also of his two brothers. We cannot however resist 
the desire to make special reference to his brother George, who 
during his life, became the pulpit bard of Canada, and was known 
throughout ecumenical Methodism, as one of the great leaders of 
the church, powerful in his preaching ability, clear in his discern- 
ment of spiritual things, simple and pathetic in his presentation 
of the claims of the gospel, and always ready to testify from a 
heart full of the pure love of Christ to His saving power. 

In 1850 Mr. Douglass was married to Miss Elizabeth B. 
Hatch. She is a lady of unusual grace and culture, always gener- 



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ous and full of sympathy, never wearying in her devotion to the 
church, and in love with the great truths of the gospel. Her 
father was a prominent clergyman in the Congregational Church. 
Her sister was the wife of Hon. William Windom, at one time 
secretary of the Treasury Department of the United States. 

REV. D. C. PLANNETTE 

Rev. D. C. Plannette was born December 25, 1850, in Alle- 
gheny City, Pa. In his 17th year he united with the Union Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. In early life he had the advantages of the 
public schools of the city of his birth. Having thus laid the foun- 
dations for a liberal education, soon after his conversion he began 
a preparation for his life's work by entering upon a course of stud)' 
in Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. He was licensed 
to preach in 1872, and in the following September was received 
on trial into the Erie Conference. He retained his connection with 
that Conference for eleven years, and his name became a synonym 
for untiring energy and ultimate success. His success in building 
churches and paying old debts was truly phenomenal; and some of 
the best churches in that Conference were lifted out of the "slough 
of despond" by his efforts. In 1883 he supplied Bismarck, then 
within the bounds of the Minnesota Conference, and successfully 
completed an unfinished church enterprise. 

At the first session of the North Dakota Mission, Bishop 
Fowler appointed him Presiding Elder of the newly formed Grand 
Forks District, which at that time embraced one half of the pres- 
ent state of North Dakota. He entered upon the work with his 
usual enthusiasm, and so well did he succeed that at the end of his 
fourth year the district was divided. As an indication of the 
thoroughness with which he did his work it is in evidence that no 
other denomination has succeeded in getting much of a foothold 
in that part of the state. In 1888 he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of the Fargo District, spendingtwo years on that field, when 
he was assigned to the pastorate of Second Church, Fargo, then 
a struggling mission worshiping in an old saloon. During his 
pastorate of two and one half years the mission developed into 



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the Roberts Street Church, and erected a two story brick building. 
In connection with his pastorate there, he also did heroic work as 
financial agent of the Red River Valley University, of which insti- 
tution he was one of the founders. 

In the spring of 1893 he was reappointed Presiding Elder of 
the Fargo District, which position he still holds. In conntction 
with his district work he also edited the North Dakota Methodist 
Pioneer, which has the distinction of being the first Methodist 
paper to nail to the mast head the motto "A Million for Missions." 
He was also a delegate to the General Conference of 1888, having 
received all but three of the votes cast. 

Mr. Plannette is no less favorably known as a strong and suc- 
cessful preacher and faithful devoted pastor, than he is as an un- 
usually successful church builder. He has been blessed with gracious 
revivals in all his pastorates. In every respect he is "a workman 
that needeth not to be ashamed." 

MATTHEW N. PRICE 

Matthew N. Price is a native of Illinois. His father, George 
B. Price moved from New York State to St. Louis, Mo., in 1833 
and started there the first religious paper published in that section 
of the countrv. In 1835 he moved to Illinois and located a f Car- 
rollton where he became prominently identified with the early 
history of Methodism in that section. He established the Carroll- 
ton Gazette in 1846, which is still published under the supervision 
of the oldest son. 

Matthew N. Price received his education in the public schools 
of his native town, He became converted and united with the M. 
E. Church when about 16 vears of age. He learned the printing 
business in his father's office at Carrollton and when 22 years of 
age he married Miss Georgianna Sutton. 

In the spring of 1876 he moved to Jacksonville, 111., and in 
connection with a brother-in-law^, Mr. H. S. Clay, established the 
Dailv Illinois Courier. 

It was at this place that Mr. Price found a much larger and 
more profitable field for his enterprise and business qualifications. 



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Daring his residence in that city he became identified with the 
educational interests and enterprising business men of that section, 
and was a man in whom the strictest confidence might be impose d. 

In 1882 they sold out their interest in the Daily Illinois Courier 
and came to Minneapolis and started the Price Brothers Printing 




MATTHEW N. PRICE 

Company. A younger brother, who has since died, was associated 
with him, but the business has been continued in the same name 
and Mr. Price has given it his untiring attention, and through his 
push and energy has increased the business to its present size. 
There is no plant in the Northwest that enjoys a better reputation 
for prompt service and excellent workmanship. 



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Soon after arriving in Minneapolis he united by letter with 
the Franklin Avenue Church, of which he is still a member and 
has served on the official board for about eleven years. 

DAVID WILLIAM EDWARDS 

The magnitude of the life insurance business is only appre- 
ciated when one is confronted with statistics showing the capital 
invested or accumulated, the members who avail themselves of its 
benefits, the amount of premiums paid, and the enormous sums 
disbursed in fulfilling its obligations. It has become to a large 
number of our people a trustee of their surplus income, a reliance 
for support in misfortune or age, and a relief from the dread of 
leaving loved ones dependent when the strong arm of their support 
may be taken away. It has the business character of an invest- 
ment and the soft and soothing touch of a beneficence. 

Natural Premium Life Insurance is the latest phase of the 
system of life insurance, evolved after a long experience, elimin- 
ating many inequalities in the operation of a rigid system, and 
reducing the cost of the life insurance to the actual requirements 
of the obligations assumed. 

This brief history is thus epitomized in the words of Doctor 
Edwards, president of the Northwestern Life Association of Minne- 
apolis addressed to the Sixteenth Annual Convention of Mutual 
Life and Accident Underwriters held at Minneapolis in June, 1891: 

"When these conventions were organized, this system of life in- 
surance was, in this country, in its infancy. Few there were who 
dreamed of its possibilities. Mountains of prejudice rose up to 
meet it on every hand. It was held up to ridicule and contempt by 
the representatives of the old system, which practically held the 
field, entrenched behind breastworks of gold. To meet such a 
competitor successfully upon the business arena, called for men — 
men of brave and honest hearts, men of the finest intellectual and 
moral fibre, careful, calculating men of undaunted courage andiron 
will; and when such men were needed they came and took the 
infant and nourished it through childhood and youth, until now it 



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stands before us clothed in all the dignity of a noble and perfect 
manhood, enjoying the confidence of the world. 

"Facts show that this system paid, during 1890, to the widows 
and orphans of the country, the enormous sum of $46,500,000, and 
that it now has its strong arm of protection round nearly 3,000,000 
of our people, protecting the beneficiaries in the fabulous sum of 
$600,000,000." 

The Northwestern Life Association, which Dr. Edwards so 
successfully administers, is the leading Natural Premium company 
in the West, if not the entire country, and is the best exemplification of 
his minute knowledge of the subject, and of his care and fidelity in 
the application of the principles of scientific insurance. 

Dr. Edwards was born February 1, 1849, near Beaver Dam, 
Wis. His father, David Edwards, belongs to the line of descent 
which includes the famous New England divine, and has been 
represented by a David and Jonathan in every generation. He 
was born at Hadley, Mass. His mother's maiden name was Mary 
H. Allen. She was born, raised and educated at New Haven, 
Conn. David W. is the oldest son of a family of seven children, 
and was ushered into life in a log farm house. His early life was 
mostly spent on a farm, where he acquired habits of industry and 
frugality. He was early taught that his mission was to assist his 
parents, which he faithfully did until 22 years of age, receiving only 
such education as he could get by attending school winters. He 
then started for himself by taking a course in a commercial college. 
Among other acquisitions he learned telegraphy, obtaining the 
position of station agent at Heron Lake, Minn., w r herehe continued 
for four years, putting in his spare hours in reading books on den- 
tistry, which profession he had decided to enter. 

He located at LeSueur, Minn., in the spring of 1878, in the 
practice of dentistry, where he remained for nearly ten years. The 
estimation in which he was held by the profession is shown by his 
election at first as secretary, and afterwards as president of the 
Southern Minnesota Dental Society, and later as secretary of the 
Minnesota State Dental Society, of both of which he is an honorary 
member to this day. 



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While satisfied with his professional success, and without at 
all contemplating engaging in life insurance as a pursuit, he was 
attracted to the study of the science and eagerly read all the liter- 
ature of the subject which came in his way. He listened with 
attentive ear to the tales of agents setting forth with voluble tongue 
the merits of their systems, or the marvelous success of their 
companies. His attainments as an insurance expert came to the 




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knowledge of several life insurance companies, which tendered him 
positions in their service of more or less importance. These were 
declined. Not until 1887 did he yield to the solicitations to enter 
the business, when he was elected a director of the Northwestern 
Life Association of Minneapolis, and at the first annual meeting 
was chosen vice-president. This was soon followed by his election 
as president of the company and by becoming identified in the 
management of its policy and affairs. 



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Dr. Edwards has more than a local fame in life insurance 
circles. He is a member of the National Convention of Mutual 
Life and Accident Underwriters of America, has served on their 
important committees and participated in their discussions. In 
1892, at Buffalo, N. Y., he was elected vice-president of that organ- 
ization, and at the annual convention held in Boston, September, 
1894, he was elected president. At the annual convention held in 
New York in 1890, upon his invitation, the next annual convention 
was appointed at Minneapolis, where it assembled in June, 1891, 
and was practically the guest of Dr. Edwards and his associate 
officers of the Northwestern Life. On this occasion he showed 
himself no less able as a public speaker than he was known to be 
skillful as an administrator. His welcoming address was greatly 
admired for its graceful periods, its forcible dealing, and its wise 
counsels. In addition to his official labors, he has for seven years 
edited the Anchor, a quarterly publication devoted to the interests 
of his company, and the general science of life insurance. 

Dr. Edwards married, October 21, 1875, Miss Mattie James, 
who was an accomplished teacher in the public schools of Colum- 
bia Co., Wis., where she was brought up. In 1882 they were 
greatly afflicted by the loss of two daughters, then their only 
children, in an epidemic of scarlet fever. At present they have a 
son of ten years, and two daughters of six and eight years of age. 
The family occupy their own pleasant residence at No. 2502 Garfield 
avenue. 

Dr. Edwards took up life insurance at a period when the 
new system was emerging from the embryonic stage into a nat- 
ural scientific system, and to its perfection he has contributed in 
no small degree by the accuracy of his knowledge, the soundness 
of his judgment, and the comprehensive scale of his thought. 

Because this sketch has dwelt upon the professional character 
of its subject it should not be considered that he possesses only 
such characteristics as are employed in material interests. It is a 
commendable fact that he has employed his gifts as a teacher of 
revealed truth in the Sunday Schools where he has lived. He was 
superintendent of the first M. E. Sunday School organized at 
Heron Lake, and he was honored with that position for ten years 



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in LeSueur. He has always been active in church and temperance 
work and is now trustee in two different churches in Minneapolis, 
superintendent of the Hennepin Avenue Sunday School, and a 
member of several temperance organizations. It is such unselfish 
devotion to a noble work that develops the true character of a 
man, showing that above the sordid pursuits of the world he cul- 
tivates the sweet grace of the inner spirit. 

BISHOP W. X. NINDE, D. D.. LL. D. 

Bishop William Xavier Ninde, D. D., LL. D., was born June 
21, 1832, in Cortlandville, N. Y. ; consequently he is now in his 
sixty-second year. He graduated from Wesley an University in 
1855, where his scholarship was of high rank. After graduation he 
taught a year and then joined the Black River Conference, and 
served several churches with increasing acceptability. In i8ci he 
was transferred to the Cincinnati Conference, and for some eight 
vears was successfully pastor of some of the principal churches in 
that city. He spent a year or two traveling in Europe and the 
East. On his return, in 1870, he was transferred to the Detroit 
Conference and stationed at the Central Church in Detroit. At 
the close of this pastorate he was elected to the chair of practical 
theology in Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, 111., of which 
institution he became president in 1879. He w as elected Bishop 
in 1884. 

Bishop Ninde might more rfaturally than most have sat for 
the episcopal portrait in the Epistle to Titus: "Blameless, * * 
not self-willed. * * a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, 
sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word, as he 
hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to 
exhort and to convince the gainsayers." He is a scholarly man, 
with a well-balanced, well-trained mind, a thorough thinker of 
wide reading, and a conscientious student. There are few better 
or more symmetrical minds in the church. He is also a man of 
unusual modesty, apparent!}- almost shrinking from publicity, but 
never from duty. He is exactly the man who would never have 
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itself felt in spite of himself, becoming known toothers long before 
the subject begins to suspect it. There is a charm about his char- 
acter which makes him very attractive to all who come in contact 
with him, and which renders his presence a delight in any circle in 
which he is found. But this is not mere amiability. There is a 




BISHOP WILLIAM XAYIER NINDE, D. D. LL. D. 



positive element in his constitution, a force of character and a vigor 
of intellect, that are altogether admirable. He has in excellent 
proportions the "sweetness and light" of Matthew Arnold's ideal 
man. Of course it is implied in all this that he is a man of careful 
culture, refined, gentle, with a spontaneous kindness that is always 



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felt wherever he is. A more genuine gentleman in the highest 
sense of that term is seldom seen. 

Bishop Ninde is a superior preacher. His matter is always 
full of interest and full of spiritual suggestion, convincing, persua- 
sive, instructive: his manner is winning and free from all that is 
unpleasing; graceful, simple, natural: his style is neat, chaste, and 
yet vigorous, with a simple rhetoric drawing attention not to itself 
nor to the speaker so much as to the thought which it clothes. 
There is a seriousness and earnestness and sincerity eliciting atten- 
tion and producing conviction. It is Biblical and orthodox, and at 
the same time in deep sympathy with ail that is human. As a 
pastor he has, we may truthfully sav. always been enihusiasticallv 
loved by his people, entering into their interests and their lives, 
and in all their afflictions showing himself most tender and helpful. 

It has been the privilege of the present writer to see Bishop 
Ninde as the presiding officer of a Conference: and we run no risk 
in making the assertion that he is a man in that position of great 
dignitv, self-poised, commanding respect without effort, and con- 
ducting the business with an orderliness and dispatch that invariably 
give the heartiest satisfaction. 

TR AFFORD X. JAYXE 

Trafford X. Javne w T as born Xovember 3, 1868, near St. 
Charles, Minnesota. His father was Havens Brewster Jayne. The 
name Brewster indicates that he is a lineal descendant of William 
Brewster, of the Mayflower. When but a small boy, Mr. Jayne's 
father died leaving him to the care of his mother, who, with no 
resources but her head and hands, supported himself and sister. 
For five years after his fathers death he lived on a farm, attend- 
ing the country school. He then attended the High School in 
Winona. At twelve vears of age, he was a freshman in the 
high school proper and at the end of that year left school and 
learned telegraphv. Upon acquiring this knowledge he went to 
work at once taking at first a night office, but, by promotion, was, 
at the age of fourteen vears, cashier of the C, M. & St. P. Rail- 
road, at Winona, at $65 a month. At sixteen years of age, he was 



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cashier of the C. & N. W. Railroad at Mankato, and there made 
$75 per month. While here he began preparation for the Univer- 
sity of Michigan. He resigned his position as cashier and studied 
from that time until September 28th of the same year, when he 
entered college at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He took three years of the 




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course in the regular Literary Department and one year in the Law 
Department, taking the four years' course in three years. He was 
also fairly prominent in athletics, being a member of the University 
Base Ball Team and, in 1889, beating both the champions of Michi- 
gan and Ohio at tennis. He received many college honors, all 
being granted at the hands of the students, there being no scholar- 



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ship honors in the institution. At the age of twenty he was Presi- 
dent of the Republican Club, numbeiing 600 members. 

In 1889 he left college, having exhausted all his funds, and 
returned to Minnesota. Upon returning home, he was offered a 
position in St. Paul as chief clerk inalaw office, which he accepted. 
In January, 1890, he was admitted to I he bar having just passed 
his twenty-first year. He practiced alone in St. Paul until Novem- 
ber, 1890, when C. B. Palmer, one of St. Paul's prominent attorneys, 
entered into partnership with him, and he was thus able to have 
much practice in court from the start. In December, 1891, Mr. 
Palmer concluded to go to New York and Mr. Jayne was offered 
the attorneyship of the Wilber Mercantile Agency in Minneapolis, 
on January 1, 1892. He at once moved to Minneapolis where he 
is still engaged in his profession. His new work was too much for 
one man so he formed a partnership with Robert G. Morrison, 
under the name of Jayne & Morrison. Since then his business has 
increased immensely and he now has a force of eight assistants in 
his six offices in Temple Court. He has had charge of several 
large cases, the amounts involved running up to hundreds of thous- 
ands of dollars. He has already had over 550 cases, though he 
has been in Minneapolis but two years and a half. 

Mr. Jayne is one of the most active and influential members of 
Wesley Church. At the age of twenty-three, he was elected 
President of the Minnesota Christian Endeavor Union, numbering 
in membership about 30,000 at that time. This work brought to 
him new opportunities. He traveled throughout the state and 
made many public speeches. As a speaker, he is forcible and 
eloquent. When once upon his feet his hearers forget whether he 
is young or old and are swayed by his impassioned eloquence and 
carried by the light of his varied and appropriate illustrations into 
the realm of truth which he so clearly portrays. 

BISHOP DANIEL AYRES GOODSELL, D. D. LL. D. 

Bishop Daniel Ayres Goodsell, D. D., is one of the most 
conspicuous, honored and influential members of the Episcopal 
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beloved member of the New York Conference, performing 
important services both as pastor and Presiding Elder. He 
was born at Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1840. From 
a child his life was devoted to study, and ere he had passed his 
nineteenth birthday he completed the courses in the New York 
University. In 1859, l ^ ie vear of his leaving college, he united 
with the New York East Conference, of which he remained afore- 
most member, rilling important charges, with ever-growing popu- 
laritv, down to 1888, the year of his elevation to the episcopacy. 
In Brooklyn and other chief cities where he served, his ministry 
was more and more sought by the most cultivated audiences. In 
Middletown, the seat of Wesleyan University, he had a fruitful pas- 
torate, and at the date of his election he had just closed an impor- 
tant building enterprise in the university city of New Haven. 

In the Conference to which he belonged he became a dis- 
tinguished member, even though the body contained many notable 
men. Evidence of the esteem in which he was held by his brethren 
is found in the fact that they elected him four times in succession to 
represent them in the General Conference — in 1876, 1880, 1884 
and 1888 — and in that great council of the denomination he became 
known as a judicious counselor and a careful and wise legislator. 
His qualities were those of a statesman rather than of a politician. 
His views were comprehensive ; the interests of to-morrow, even 
more than those of to-day, were taken into account. Local and 
personal advantages received less consideration than what con- 
cerned the general cause in every part of the field. As a law-maker 
he was as broad as the great church to which he belonged. 

Meantime he became known to the church not only for his 
abilities as a preacher, but also for his scholarly attainments. Well 
and largely read in theology, he had given also much attention to 
science, philosophy and literature, and had become master of a 
clear and vigorous stvle. He knew how to put solid thought, in 
his various lines of investigation, into incisive and forceful English. 
Many of his articles in the Christian Advocate are models of robust 
statement and masterly disquistion. The knowledge of these 
facts led the Wesleyan Association, in the spring of 1887, to select 
him as editor of Zion's Herald. The position was accepted, and its 



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duties were to be entered upon the ensuing January. During this 
interval there was a strong demand for his services as secretary of 
the Board of Education. The urgency of this demand induced the 
Wesleyan Association to relinquish its claims, and he entered upon 
the duties of his secretaryship in July, 1887. 

In the General Conference of 1888 he was chosen to the Epis- 
copal office; and in this high position he has honored the church in 
the exercise of his rare administrative abilities. In his Episcopal 
make-up the elements are admirably distributed and proportioned. 
He has no hobbies. He is a specialist in no single line. He is 
adapted to the entire work of a Methodist superintendent. He 
can preach and write with the best, as well as administer. 

As a preacher he is both intellectual and earnest. With a 
wide and strong grasp of his subject, he warms and glows as he 
advances in his discourse, taking hold on the sympathies and 
hearts, as well as the understandings, of men. In his sermons are 
found the leading truths and principles of the Gospel in their 
modern settings and adaptations. He deals with a practical, ex- 
perimental gospel for the current world and hour. In his physical 
and mental endowments he is eminently Episcopal. Standing over 
six feet in his shoes, with a strong and compact build, he presents 
a portly and commanding presence. His qualities of mind are 
judicial and masterful. He know r s men as individuals and as con- 
stituent parts of the great social web, and comprehends truth in its 
manifold parts and relations. With depth of conviction and clear- 
ness of purpose to conserve the interests of the church, he is gen- 
erously S3< T mpathetic with the men and women who are engaged in 
the itinerant work, taking into counsel his heart as well as his head 
in arranging the schedule of services for the ecclesiastical year. 

WILLIAM HENRY EUSTIS 

William Henry Eustis is a native of the state of New York, 
born July 17, 1845, at the little village of Oxbow, near the bound- 
ary line separating Jefferson from St. Lawrence county. His 
father, Tobias Eustis, was born at Truro in Cornwall, England, 
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followed the trade of wheelwright. His ancesters were sturdy 
miners of Cornwall. His mother was Mary Mark wick, also of 
English descent. William Henry was the second born of a family 
of eleven children. The boy was a robust scion of laborious and 
healthy parents, who had the ambition to make him a blacksmith. 
At an early age he assisted his father and picked up such jobs of 
work as the neighbors offered, chief of which was grinding bark 
in a village tannery. At the age of fifteen, while pursuing some 
daring diversion, an accident produced an affection of the hip, 
which laid him aside from outdoor life, and nearly cost him his 
life. For seven years he was a great sufferer, going about only 
with the aid of crutches. His recovery, deemed almost miraculous, 
was due to a naturally strong constitution, a resolute will, and 
careful treatment, which his own study and thought taught him to 
apply to himself. Having attended, during a few of the winter 
months, a district school, he found his way to Governeur, St. 
Lawrence Co., where he entered a seminary. His parents thought 
at this time that he might be able to follow shoemaking, or pos- 
sibly become a harnessmaker, but he had other inspirations. He 
applied himself to learn book-keeping and telegraphy, while be- 
ginning studies preparatory to a more complete literary education. 
Besides his physical infirmity, he was without means, and could 
only hope to pursue a higher education through his own earnings. 
He left the seminary, and for several winters taught a common 
school. Among other studies, he took up physiolog} T , and care- 
fully applied the science to his own treatment. 

He now obtained a situation in the seminary to teach book- 
keeping and telegraphy, and with some practice in soliciting for 
life insurance, earned enough money to pay his way at the semi- 
nary and through a preparation for college. In 1871 he entered 
the Sophomore class of Wesleyan University at Middletown, 
Conn., and keeping up with his class which he entered, while ab- 
senting himself winters to teach school, and recruit his finances, 
graduated with the class in which he entered college in 1873. He 
went immediately to New York and entered the Columbian Law 
School, at which he graduated in the spring of 1874, having done 
the work of two years in one. He was now master of a profes- 



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sion, but without practice, and in debt $1,000. He, therefore, as 
the best expedient that offered took a position as teacher in one of 
the grammar schools of New York City. Having been brought 
up in the school of privation, he had learned the lesson of economy, 
so that he was able at the close of the year to pay off the debt in- 
curred in obtaining his education, and had money enough to buy a 
railroad ticket to Saratoga Springs, a new suit of clothes, and a 
surplus of fifteen dollars, with which to commence the professional 
work of his life. 

Now occurred one of those circumstances which devout men 
are wont to call providence, but others accidents, upon which the 
course of life sometimes turns. While at Saratoga Springs in at- 
tendance upon a college regatta, at which a younger brother held 
the captaincy of the Wesleyan University crew, he made the ac- 
quaintance of John R. Putman, a practicing lawyer of that place, 
who was deeplv interested in the boat races. Mindful of his new 
acquaintance, Mr. Putman wrote him at New York, offering him 
a partnership in his law practice, which was accepted, and he soon 
was installed in the office at Saratoga, with plenty of work to keep 
him busy. This was in 1875. He remained at Saratoga and with 
Judge Putman for six years. These were busy years. The prac- 
tice of the office was large and lucrative. 

The competition at the bar was such as to stimulate the best 
powers of the practitioners. The eloquent Henry Smith the 
acute Esek Cowen, and the erudite William A. Beach, were in 
active practice and often met at the Saratoga bar. 

In the spring of 188 1 Mr. Eustis was at Washington at the 
inauguration of President Garfield, and soon sailed for Europe, in- 
tending to spend two years in travel and rest. The assassination 
of the president made such an impression upon him that he cut 
short his trip, and returned to America. It ma} 7 not be easy f o 
explain the psycological connection in the events. Mr. Eustis was 
an ardent republican and had been enthusiastically engaged in the 
campaign which gave New York to the republicans, and placed 
Garfield in the presidential chair. We know that the assassina- 
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ical destiny. We may not wonder that a patriotic American, in 
a foreign land should become heart sick. 

The keen perception of a successful lawyer had not failed to 
discern the signs that political supremacy in the nation was fast 
tending westward. He decided to follow the star of destiny, and 
set out for the West. After visiting Kansas City, St. Louis, Du- 



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WILLIAM HENRY EUSTIS 

buque, and other ambitious cities, he came to Minneapolis early in 
October and was favorably impressed with its appearance. Re- 
turning to Chicago, he ordered his baggage checked for the place 
which has since been his home and the scene of his great profes- 
sional and financial success. He arrived on the 23rd of October, 



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1881, and at once entered an office with an old acquaintance, Dr. 
Camp; was admitted to the bar of the state and commenced the 
practice of the law. With the exception of two years he has had 
no professional associate. His legal practice has been fair. He 
brought with him the savings of his earlier years, which constituted 
a fair capital. By judicious investments he was gradually drawn 
into business enterprises, which soon occupied much of his time, 
and yielded large financial results. He built the block on Sixth 
street and Hennepin avenue, which became headquarters of the 
Union League. The fine brick office opposite the Chamber of 
Commerce, the Corn Exchange, was erected in 1885, and later 
a more statelv office building went up under his direction upon 
another corner in the same locality, the Flour Exchange. He 
was a director and member of the Building Committee of the 
Masonic Temple Co., which has erected upon Hennepin avenue 
one of the stateliest structures in the city. 

Mr. Eustis was one of the original corporators of the Minne- 
apolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway, and was upon its 
Board of Directors. He was also largely interested in the Land 
and Town Site Co., organized in connection with that great enter- 
prise. He was also one ot the originators of the North American 
Telegraph Co.. and was a director and secretary of the company. 
This Minneapolis enterprise, having telegraphic connections from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast is one which the great Western 
Union Telegraph Co. has been unable to absorb or crush, and 
gives to the commercial world a recourse from an otherwise over- 
whelming monopoly. 

The physical infirmities of his earlier life have given place to 
a condition of robust health. He is a fine example of bodily per- 
fection. His manners are cordial, his temper enthusiastic, and his 
bearing almost courtly. His conversation is most entertaining, 
sparkling with humor, apt illustration and solid learning. He has 
an artistic taste, and a manner of expression enriched with grace 
imbibed bv familiarity with the treasures of literature. 

No one of our public spirited citizens has entered with greater 
resolution into projects for building up the city, than he. When 
discredit was attempted to bs cast upon the accuracy of our cen- 



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sus enumeration in 1890 by a rival city, his spirit was aroused; 
although the charges urged with persistency, brought a re- 
count in both cities, Minneapolis preserved in the final result her 
relative supremacy. 

Mr. Eustis is an ardent republican. He believes in republi- 
canism with all that the name implies. He was a most enthusiastic 
admirer of Hon. James G. Blaine, and it would have been the great- 
est joy of his life to see him occupy the presidential chair. 

In the fall of 1892 he was elected mayor of Minneapolis.. His 
term of office, drawing to its close, has not been free from the 
usual criticism of public officials, but it has marked an advance 
over all previous administrations in its independence of policy, 
practical handling of vexed questions, sympathetic spirit toward the 
weak and fallen, decrease in criminality and patriotic allegiance to 
the principles of good government. 

Mayor Eustis is a Christian gentleman. His charity is bound- 
less and his creed is "do good unto all men." While a member of 
the Methodist church, he is liberal in feeling toward all churches 
and is read}' to help in any movement that has for its object the 
moral and intellectual enthronement of man. 

REV. EDWARD S. PILLING 

Edward S. Pilling was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 
4, 1858. Both parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, teaching him from earliest infancy to love and serve 
Christ. When about thirteen years of age, he made a public pro- 
fession of his faith in Christ, uniting with the Arch Street Church. 
From that time until the present, he has been identified with the 
same denomination, at once becoming greatly interested in and 
occasionally leading the Young People's meeting, then (1871) a 
well established and popular service. He is now one of our enthu- 
siastic and interested workers in the Epworth League. 

He was appointed a Sunday School teacher when about twenty 
years of age, and soon after, as class leader. He had charge of 
v a Sunday morning class, both lines of work being kept up until 
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He entered the public schools of Philadelphia before he was 
six years of age, and when not quite twelve years old, was quali- 
fied to enter the Central High School. One and a half years were 
spent, however, in the senior grade of the Grammar School, work- 




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ing upon advanced studies, and two years were given to High 
School work. 

Business life was entered before he was sixteen }^ears of age. 
First, with a book and publishing house, then, for a short time, 
working as book-keeper for his father, then as assistant secretary* 
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and cashier for one of the large wholesale houses of the city, re- 
maining at this work until July, 1882. 

Having received at this time a clear call to the ministry, he 
entered Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison, N. J., gradua- 
ting with the class of 1885, but being desirous of further special 
work, he took one year of post-graduate studies. He felt clearly 
called of God to go to Minnesota, and entered the Minnesota Con- 
ference on trial in 1886, passing subsequently all the examinations 
at the highest grade and at the head of his class. For several 
years he was treasurer of the Conference. He is now secretary 
and a member of the Executive Comittee of the Hamline Univer- 
sity. 

His work has been in churches in the neighborhood of, or in 
the Twin Cities, except for two years, when pastor of Grace Church, 
Duluth. In 1892 he was appointed as pastor of Richfield Church, 
one of the oldest appointments of the Conference, the church being 
on Lyndale avenue south, just beyond the Minneapolis city limits. 

He has very successfully used the stereopticon in his church 
work to illustrate the gospel, finding it a valuable help. He also 
occasionally lectures for our churches on such illustrated topics as, 
"The Beautiful Bermudas": "The World's Fair"; "Glimpses of 
American Wonderland"; "Death Valley and the Mojave Desert," 
believing that the church should, so far as possible, give clean, 
wholesome and educational entertainments to help crowd out 
harmful attractions. The many testimonials given to him, show 
how much his work in this line has been appreciated and how it 
has proved of profit to the churches. 

BISHOP ISAAC W. JOYCE, D. D., LL. D. 

Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, D. D., EL. D., was born in Hamilton 
Co., O., October 11, 1836. In 1850 his parents removed to T ip- 
pecanoe Co., Ind., and from that time until 1880 the Hoosier State 
was his home and the field of his labors. He was converted and 
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, Jury 22, 1852, when only 
sixteen years of age. After completing the course of study at 
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Conference, October 4, 1859. From that date until his election to 
the episcopacy in 1888, with the exception of four years spent in 
the office of Presiding Elder, he was continuously in the pastorate. 
During this period he filled the most important appointments in his 
Conference, and in 1880 was one of its delegates to the General 
Conference. In the fall of this same year he was transferred to 
the Cincinnati Conference, and stationed at its most conspicuous 
appointment, St. Paul Church, of the city just named. After three 
years of most successful labor in that charge, he was appointed 
to Trinity Church in the same city. At the dose of the pastoral 
term there, he was returned to St. Paul, and was in the midst of 
an unusually successful second pastorate in that important church 
when elected to the episcopacy. 

Bishop Joyce was preeminently successful in the work of the 
pastorate. While stationed at College Avenue Church, Green- 
castle, Ind., his influence for good upon the students in attendance 
upon the then Asbury University was unbounded. Through his 
earnest labor and wise counsels scores of the } r oung men were led 
into a Christian life and started upon careers of great usefulness in 
Christian work. W 7 hile pastor of St. Paul, Cincinnati, that church 
enjoyed the most extensive revival Cincinnati Methodism had 
known for many vears. An almost equally great awakening at- 
tended his ministrv at Trinity Church. It is safe to say that no 
Methodist minister ever stationed in Cincinnati made a greater 
impression upon the city at large than did Dr. Joyce. His influence 
was felt throughout the Conference, and to a large extent through- 
out the state. So great had been the impression made by his 
labors, that after eight years of service within its bounds he was 
elected by the Conference one of its delegates to the General 
Conference of 1888. 

As a preacher Bishop Joyce is naturally inclined to be some- 
what metaphysical, but his love for souls and earnest desire for 
their salvation never fails to set his metaphysics on fire. He is 
always thoughtful, clear and logical, but the predominating trait 
of his preaching, and that which oftentimes renders it glowingly 
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As an administrator Bishop Joyce is wise, firm, and yet ex- 
ceedingly kind. He is possessed of a great heart which beats in 
profoundest sympathy with every itinerant Methodist preacher. 
He has himself passed through almost every phase of an itinerant's 
life, with its accompanying trials and preplexities, and therefore 
can enter deeply into the experiences of his brethren. He is always 
easily accessible to the humblest minister, and without patronizing 
effort makes every member of the Conference over which he pre- 
sides feel that he is indeed a friend and a brother. 

REV. T. W. STOUT 

Rev. T. W. Stout was born at 
Morristown, 111., July 28, 1868. His 
father died when he was but two years 
of age. When two years old his fam- 
ily removed to Elys burg, Penn. There 
he spent the years of his childhood, 
receiving the rudiments of his educa- 
tion in the public schools of that state, 
removing to Minneapolis in 1882. 

His preparatory education was 
completed in the schools of that city. 
He entered the University of Minneso- 
ta, graduating from that institution in 
1891. While in the University he REV ' T ' W - ST0UT 

supported himself in a large measure 

by his own efforts. By natural inclination he devoted himself es- 
pecially to history, languages and literary study, and excelled par- 
ticularly in those lines. 

During his Junior year he was editor of the "Ariel," the Uni- 
versity paper. His work was such as to call forth words of signal 
approval from President Northrop. He was active in the debat- 
ing societies, and is a member of the Beta Theta Pi College Fra- 
ternity. 

After graduation he turned his attention to teaching. For 
two years he was principal of the High School at Howard Lake, 




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in this state. In those years this school rose rapidly, more certifi- 
cates were issued for studies completed than in any other years, 
and three-fourths of the graduates that the school has ever pro- 
duced, were sent forth then. 

Leaving the work of teaching, he entered the ministry in 1893. 
Converted in childhood, he has always felt the call to preach, but 
unwilling to enter on that work, it was only after a severe struggle 
that he did so and was set to work in his present field at once. 

The society of the Park Avenue Church had been organ- 
ized in the spring. In July, when he assumed charge there were 
about twenty members. There was no church building, but ser- 
vices were held on Sabbath afternoons in the edifice of a sister de- 
nomination. Since then the membership has risen to eighty; a neat 
building has been erected and all indebtedness on it has been pro- 
vided for. 

Various departments of the church are in a good state, and a 
young and vigorous Epworth League promises much for the fu- 
ture. 

Situated in a splendid residence part of the citv, this church is 
sure to grow to great strength. Already the audiences fill the 
building and a larger one must be provided. 

CHARLES HITCHCOCK FOWLER 

Charles Hitchcock Fowler, son of Bishop C. H. Fowler and 
Myra Hitchcock Fowler, and grandson of Rev. Luke Hitchcock, 
D. D., was born in Evanston, 111., August 24, 1873, while his 
father was president of the Northwestern University. His tastes and 
habits as a student and scholar conform to his environment. He 
has the genius of scholarship which consists in two special gifts, 
first, capacity and disposition for tireless and interminable work, 
and second, an ambition, not to go through a book or subject, but 
to have the book or subject go through him. 

His advantages have been exceptionally good. His youth 
was spent in New York City. He has been drilled in private and 
public schools of New York City and of San Francisco, Cal., and 
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for his Freshman work and in the University of Minnesota for 
Sophomore, Junior and Senior work, where he is now a Classical 
Senior. In the regular order of events he will complete in this 
university year, the studies of the classical course, and also the 
studies of the scientific course. He has also a full share of favor 
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with the students of the University of Wisconsin. He is now pres- 
ident of his class. 

He has traveled much with his parents; he has gone round 
the world in the usual route, visiting Japan, Corea, China, India, 
Africa, Russia and the countries of Europe. He has visited South 



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America, going south almost to the borders of Patagonia. He 
has gone north to Alaska, America, and to the North Cape in 
Europe. These years of travel have been years of earnest and 
painstaking study. His letters to the press concerning some of 
these countries have been well received, reprinted and highly 
commended. He is known in his literary work as Carl Fowler. 
Tall in person, quiet and gentle in manner, and unobtrusive, yet 
exceedingly full of conversation, he is welcome in society. 

WILBRA W. SWETT 

Wilbra W. Swett was born December 12, 1839, at Bangor, 
Me. His father, Thomas Jefferson Swett, was a Free Baptist 
preacher and preached throughout Maine for about fifty-six years. 
His eldest brother, C. D. Swett, is a Baptist minister in Massachu- 
setts; another brother prepared for the ministry, but died before he 
realized his ambition. Besides these, there were many other 
Baptist ministers in the Swett family. The subject of this sketch 
is the only Methodist in the family and yet at an early age he 
would resist the Calvanistic fatality of his church, and argue 
against it with his father by the hour. After he had left the 
Baptist Church he gave as his reason for the change that "Metho- 
dism is the embodiment of the most effective form of evangelizing* 
the world.'' He was converted when ten years of age, but made 
no open profession until 1870, when, under s the pastorate of Rev. 
James Dimmick, in Danville, 111., he united with the North Street 
Methodist Church. He left his home at twelve years of age. 
First he worked at the carpentering trade. In 1854 he learned 
watchmaking; in 1859 ne entered the jewelry business for himself. 
When the war broke out he enlisted in the Ninth Massachusetts 
Three Months Regiment serving in the state. He was also en- 
gaged in the government service, going to the front with the 
Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment from which he was detached 
after reaching Washington, for special service. He was relieved 
from this service in the fall of 1863 in consequence of ill health. 
He immediately moved to Springfield, 111., and re-engaged in the 
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dent Lincoln's funeral. In 1 868 he went to Danville, 111. In 187 1 
he moved to Kansas, spending the time from the spring of 1872 to 
the fall of 1875 in Kansas, Texas and the Indian Territory. From 
1875 to l &$ 2 he was engaged in the jewelry business and watch 
factories in Illinois. From 1882 to 1888 he was agent for the 






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Equitable Life Insurance Company with headquarters in St. Louis. 
October 1, 1888, he became manager for the Massachusetts Mutual 
Life Insurance Company for the Northwest with headquarters in 
Minneapolis. He united with the Franklin Avenue Methodist 
Church in 1890 where he has served in most of the official positions 
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establishing, and for some time, maintaining the Seven Star Mission 
at Seven Corners. 

It need only be said in conclusion that Mr. Swett is a progres- 
sive citizen, a loyal Methodist, a consistent Christian and a manly 
man. He is always reliable, ready to be called upon for any ser- 
vice, and full of zeal for the cause of Christ. 




JAMES NELSON BEARNES 



JAMES NELSON BEARNES 

James N. Bearnes was born in Licking Co., Ohio, in July, 
1854. His father was a Methodist preacher of the genuine type, 
strong in his logical abilitv, profound in his moral convictions and 
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These predominating traits of his father, coupled with the gen- 
tleness, self-sacrifice and tender sympathies of the mother, entered 
largely into the character of the son. He was educated in his boyhood 
in the public schools and in 1 878 graduated from the classical depart- 
ment of the Ohio Wesleyan University. While a student he took 
high rank among his classmates, always devoted to his books, 
true to his responsibilities as a student, and animated with a deter- 
mination to have a thorough preparation for the work of life. Dur- 
ing his senior year he was assistant professor in Mathematics. Al- 
though reared in the Methodist itinerary his mind was early turned 
toward the law and while yet a student at the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, he began its study. Upon graduation he accepted the 
superintendency of the schools for one year, at Mt. Gilead, O. He 
then occupied the same position for one year at Upper Sanduskv, 
after which he took charge of the schools at Sidney, O., for three 
years. He entered the law office of Gen. Jones, at Delaware, Ohio, 
and prepared for the legal profession, into which he was admitted 
in 1881. He practiced successfully for a while in Ohio. In 1882 
he came to Minneapolis and has' been since that time actively en- 
gaged in the practice of law. 

He has in his care, cases of all classes and is known in the pro- 
fession as a man who gives the strictest attention to the interests 
of his clients. 

He is a lawyer of marked abitity, is well versed in all that 
pertains to the profession, and commands the unqualified respect 
of his associates. 

He was married in Indianapolis in October, 1882, to Miss Mary 
E. Gray. Her parents were leading Methodists and she is an active 
member of the Hennepin Avenue Church. 

BISHOP LEONID AS LENT HAMLINE 

If you visit Rose Hill Cemetery, near Chicago, you may find 
there a grave marked by a plain slab of gray syenite bearing the 
inscription, "Leonidas L. Hamline." Only that and nothing more, 
for so the sleeper willed it. Was he born and did he die? Had he 
titles and was his life a blessing? Why should these questions be 




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answered on stone? Dates and titles avail not; deeds only live in 
history, and deeds at last are all gathered up into the name of him 
who wrought them. It was thoroughly characteristic of the man, 
and represents not self-consciousness, but humility and self-depre- 
ciation, which marked his entire religious life. Let us turn from 
the marble slab to the scant records of the life of this great man. 

Leonidas Lent Hamline was born in Burlington, Conn., May 10, 
1797. His early studies were pursued with a view to the Christian 
ministry, but later he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
Lancaster, O. The death, however, of his little daughter in 1828 
changed the whole course of his life, for it led to his conversion, 
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and later to the 
ministry, and his subsequent brilliant career in that profession. He 
was received on trial in the Ohio Annual Conference in 1832, and 
only two years later was stationed at Wesley Chapel, Cincinnati, 
which then ranked among the most important charges in the 
Methodist Church. In 1836 he was appointed assistant editor of 
the Western Christian Advocate and in 1841 was made editor of 
the Ladies' Repository. In both these positions he achieved 
marked success. In 1844, only twelve years after he was admitted 
on trial, he was elected Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Though this was his first appearance in a General Conference, his 
fame as a preacher and his power as a writer had made him well 
known throughout the church; but it was not so much that as it was 
his great speech on the "Powers of the General Conference," to 
which must be attributed his election to the office of Bishop. 

It was, indeed, a stormy session, and in the great debate on the 
slavery question, which was involving both our itinerancy and our 
episcopacy, the great speech of L. L. Hamline was facilefrincefs, 
But he did not long remain a Bishop. Already his nervous consti- 
tution had been shattered, and even then he was entering that 
period of suffering which was practically to make his sun set at noon. 
He resigned his office of Bishop in 1852, and ceased to live on earth 
February 22, 1865. 

Such is a brief sketch of Bishop Hamline. He was a man 
cast in one of nature's largest moulds. His physical presence was 
noble and commanding. Henry Clay said of him, "I have never 



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seen such dignit}' in human form before." And yet his was the 
dignity of a polite, well-bred gentleman, whose presence in any 
company'would immediately attract attention. But nature did not 
bankrupt herself in giving to Mr. Hamline his physical make-up, 
magnificent as it was, for his intellectual endowments were quite as 
remarkable. His training for the law did much to make him pre- 
cise in his statements, orderly in his processes and logical in his 
deductions. As a debater he had few equals; prudent, fearless, 
searching and critical, yet perfectly fair and honorable. 

He was a man of fine presence and voice; the English language 
has had but few writers of better style; he was a master of logic, 
argument and oratory; his imagination was vivid, yet well in hand. 
All this, combined with an earnestness and unction quite unusual, 
made him a preacher of great power. His w^as not, indeed, the 
unction, pathos and ovei mastering eloquence of Simpson, though 
falling but little below him in these respects; his thought and argu- 
ment were far better, with the general impression and results more 
permanent. 

Doctor Olin was, doubtless, the greatest preacher Methodism 
has ever produced, and yet Doctor Hibbard does not hesitate to 
say that Hamline was not a "whit behind Olin" as a preacher. 
Contrasting them, he says, "Hamline was impassioned; never 
boisterous; Olin was vehement; Hamline was earnest; Olin, im- 
petuous; Hamline was like the even, though often rapid flow of a 
beautiful stream, bearing its buoyant burden safely and gracefully 
onward; Olin was like the torrent, or the whirlwind, hurrying all 
before it. With him the hurricane was inevitable, but he rode 
upon it in majesty, and, like the spirit of the storm, directed its 
forces. Hamline never suffered the storm to arise, but checked it 
midw^ay, and if the sweep and force of his eloquence were less, the 
auditors were left more self-controlled, and the practical ends not 
less salutary." 

Bishop Hamline was devout and intensely earnest in his religi- 
ous life. When I saw him in 1850 he seemed to me like a man on 
earth trying to live wholly in heaven. As Carlyle said of Edward 
Irving. "He was trying to look into the face of Deity and live." 

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he went through eight years of severe affliction with great resig- 
nation, and declaied in the midst of it all, "I am far more contented 
and cheerful than in the best days of my youth." The comfort of 
his life, it was also his staff in the supreme moment of death, for he 
exclaimed, -'Oh, wondrous, wondrous, wondrous love!" 

The subject of our sketch was a man of benevolent intentions 
and deeds. He and his wife made at least two donations of twenty- 
five thousand dollars each for the founding of Methodist colleges. 
Hamline University is one of these, and was named in token of that 
fact. The property received from him is in Chicago, from which 
we get an annual rental of three thousand four hundred dollars, so 
that to that extent, at least, he is paying the tuition of the young 
men and women who are students in Hamline to-day, and doubt- 
less will continue doing so for many generations yet to come. 
Being dead he yet speaketh; and though in heaven, he is still at 
work here on the earth. The unique inscription on the plain slab 
in Rose Hill Cemetery has its justification and completion in the 
holy temple builded of "lively stones" which he himself is helping 
to polish. For him, and for all such as he was, costly mausoleums 
are out of place. They are neither suitable homes nor monuments. 
The monument is elsewhere and far more enduring, and the home 
is in heaven. 

Faculty of Hamline University 

PRESIDENT GEORGE H. BRIDGMAN, D. D. 

President George H. Bridgman, D. D., was born in Ontario, 
Canada. He graduated from Victoria University in 1864 and at 
once entered upon the work of the Christian ministry. He con- 
tinued in the pastorate in Canada for nine years, occupying pulpits 
in Brantford, Hamilton and Toronto. In 1873 he accepted a call 
to the principalship of the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, 
N. Y., and remained at the head of that institution for ten years. 
He was called to the presidency of Hamline University in 1883. 
The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by his Alma 
Mater in i86j and the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Syracuse 
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REV. GEORGE S. INNIS, Ph. D. 

Rev. George S. Innis, Ph. D., passed his early years in his 
birth-place, Columbus O., graduating at the high school in 1869. 
He graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan, at Delaware, in 1872, and 
took a course in the Boston University School of Theology, grad- 
uating in 3876. In 1877 he entered tne Minnesota Conference and 
in 1881 was elected Professor of the Latin Language and Literature 
in Hamline University. A. M. and Ph. D., were conferred by 
the Illinois Wesleyan in 1885. In 1889 Professor Innis was elected 
to the chair of history, upon the duties of which he entered after 
travels abroad. Prof. Innis has had personal supervision of our 
library, and under his untiring efforts it has become an honor to 
Minnesota Methodism. 

PROF. LOREN H. BATCHELDER, A. M. 

Prof. Loren H. Batchelder, A. M., was born in Montpelier, 
Vt., of Puritan ancestry. He prepared for college at the Vermon 
Methodist Seminary and was graduated from Middleburv College 
in the class of 1874. After graduation, he was elected Professor of 
Mathematics and Chemistry in the Newark Conference Collegiate 
Institute at Hackettstown, N. J., where he was soon admitted to 
the bar, having prosecuted his law studies while teaching. He 
was married to Miss Gulick, daughter of Rev. ]. G. Gulick, of 
Elmira, N. Y., in 1882. In 1883 he was elected to his present 
position. He has been for three years professor of Analytical 
Chemistry and Lecturer in Electricity in the Summer School of 
the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts, Chautauqua, N. Y. He 
is also a lecturer in the Chautauqua University Extension courses. 

PROF. ERASTUS F. MEARKLE, LL. B. 

Prof. Erastus F. Mearkle, LL. B., took the Normal Course 
at Pennsylvania State Normal School and afterward graduated in 
the Scientific Couise. Read medicine — partial course — at Univer- 
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then studied in the Law Department. Taught various schools in 
Pennsylvania. Taught four years in Peddie Institute, Hights- 
town, N. J. Was principal of Peoria Public Schools for two 
years. Has been professor of Mathematics at Hamline from the 
opening of the university in September, 1880, until the present 
time, excepting the year of 1882-83. 

PROF. MILTON J. GRIFFIN, A. M. 

Prof. Milton J. Griffin, A. M., was born in Michigan but spent 
his boyhood in Pennsylvania. He prepared for college in Genesee 
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., 1864-67 and entered Genesee 
College, Lima, in 1867, remaining there three years. Instructor 
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, 1869-70. Principal of Grammar 
School, Rome, N. Y., 1870-71. Professor in Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary, 1871-72. A. B. conferred by Syracuse University, 
1874; A. M., 1876. Professor of Latin, Greek and German, 
Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y., 1873-75. Principal of 
various schools in New York from 1875-79. Studied and traveled 
in Europe, 1879-81. Professor of Classical Literature, High 
School, Syracuse, N. Y., 1881-86. Professor of Greek Language 
and Literature, Hamline University, since 1886. 

PROF. HENRY L. OSBORN, Ph. D. 

Prof. Henry L. Osborn, Ph. D., was born at Newark, N. J., 
1857. Prepared for college at Drew Theological Seminary, Mad- 
ison, N. J. B. A. conferred by Wesleyan University, Middleton, 
Conn., 1878. Ass't Professor of Biology 1878-80. Fellow in 
Biology, Johns Hopkins University, receiving degree of Ph. D. in 
1884. Employed by U. S. Fish Commission in the summer of 
1879, to s P en d three months in studying the natural history of the 
codfish, the results of which researches were published in the 10th 
census report. In 1880 was with the Fish Commission and in 
1882-84 he was with the Chesapeake Zoological Labratory. 1884- 
87 at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Editor of and contributor 
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PROF. WILLIAM E. THOMPSON, A. M. 

Prof. William E. Thompson, A. M., was born at Bristol, 
Rhode Island. Graduated from Bristol High School [and the 
Rhode Island State Normal, and then taught in the public schools 
of his native state. Deciding to enter college, he prepared at W r il- 
braham and Phillips Exeter Academies and entered Brown Uni- 
versity, Providence, R. L, where he graduated in 1873. Received 
his A. M. in 1876. Elected a member of the American Philologi- 
cal Association in 1877, having previously, in June, 1873, been 
elected to fill the Chair of Ancient Languages at Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary, Lima, N. Y., where he remained for a period of sixteen 
years, up to the time of his call to the Latin Chair in Hamline 
University in 1889. 

MISS HANNAH L. SHOEMAKER, A. M. 

(Extract from first fifty years of Cazenovia Seminary, 1876.) 
Miss Shoemaker, A. M., was elected Perceptress, and still holds 
the place. Her administration of the Ladies' Department has been 
unsurpassed. No one of her predecessors has made a deeper im- 
pression upon the students or added more to the reputation of the 
Institution than she. An exact scholar, an apt teacher, a thorough 
disciplinarian, her recitation room is a distinctive feature of the 
Seminaiy. The high character which the school enjoys is a part 
of her unstinted contribution." In 1883 Hamline University se- 
cured the services of Miss Shoemaker. Her life among us has 
been all we should expect from the above extract. Active, earnest 
and sympathetic, her talents and culture have contributed much 
toward the formation of refined and noble character among our 
students. 

PROF. ARTHUR Z. DREW, A. M. 

Prof. Arthur Z. Drew, A. M., was born at Thornton's Ferry, 
New Hampshire, in i860. Attended various schools until his re- 
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schools at Ottawa, Minn. Worked at various employments, in- 
cluding the position of operator in the telegraph companies, until 
he entered Hamline. After taking a preparatory course he entered 
the college in 1882, graduating in 1886. He was retained as in- 
structor in Latin and English. Was married to a member of his 
class, Miss Stowers, in 1887. Was ordained a minister of the Gos- 
pel. Received his A. M. from Hamline University in i88q. 
Elected Assistant Professor of Mathematics in 1890. 

THOMAS C. ALDRICH 

Thomas C. Aldrich was born in Brunswick, O., in 1842, of 
Scotch-Irish parentage. He was reared in a good, Methodist 
home, being one of nine children, seven brothers and two sisters. 
His father, Charles M. Aldrich, is still living in Ohio, and is in his 
eighty-seventh year. 

His early life was spent on a farm, where, in the district school, 
was laid the foundation of his education. He subsequently entered 
college, but at the breaking out of the rebellion, he abandoned his 
studies and took up arms in defense of his country. His record as 
a soldier during the war, was characterized by the same energy., 
courage and patriotism, that have played so prominently in his 
subsequent career. 

At the close of the war he went West, where he has contrib- 
uted in no small degree to the growth and development of the 
various sections in which he has labored and lived. 

He has been an ardent supporter of the church. He united 
with the Methodist church in 1874 an< ^ nas always identified him- 
self with it wherever his lines have been cast. 

He has recently accepted the position of general agent of 

The flutual Life Insurance Co., of New York. 

E. W. Peet & Son are the state managers, with their central office 
in St. Paul. 

This company began business in 1843. It is the oldest com- 
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Its total assets are $186,707,680, being $17,651,283 more 
assets than any other American life company has; its assets and 
surplus are twice as large as the capital and surplus of the Bank of 
England. The total number of policies in force December 31, 
1891, was 273,213, insuring $802,867,478. 




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It is purely mutual, having no capital stock. All profits of 
the business are paid to policy-holders, and its entire accumula- 
tions and surplus belong to them exclusively. 

Up to December 31, 1893, it had paid to its policy-holders 
$367,351,640.26, which is double the amount ever paid by any 
other life company; the death claims paid amounting to $i4i,28i,_ 



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671.09 and the amount paid living members to $226,069,969.17. 
Its total surplus, as shown by the official report to The Minnesota 
Insurance Department, is $ 25,3 14,206.92. 

Including present surplus, it has earned for its policy-holders 
over one hundred millions ($105,466,533.34) in dividends of profits 
which is 42 per cent, more than the earnings of any other 
company. 

v The receipt in 51 years of nearly $635,000,000 for the benefit 
of the members of only one Life Insurance Company is, in itself, a 
most wonderful demonstration of what this business is capable of in 
the future. 

Taking the entire 51 years, it appears that nearty one-fourth 
of its income was from the interest and profits earned by its invested 
funds, which now amount to nearly one-third of all the moneys it 
has ever received. Nearly 60 per cent, of its entire income has 
alread} r been used in paying claims due to its members under con- 
tracts that have matured, or in dividends paid to policy-holders, and 
for surrender values allowed to discontinued policies. It has paid 
$87,413,924.43 in dividends, and still has $25,314,206.92 accumu- 
lated for distribution when due. $544,137,700.07 of its income has 
been for the exclusive benefit of its insured members. 

The miscellaneous profits, realized over the interest and rents 
received, have amounted to nearly $8,000,000, which has more 
than paid all the salaries of those who, for 51 years, have managed 
the company and produced its phenomenal results. 

The interest, rents and profits have amounted to $144,904,- 
194.51. The death claims to $141,281,671.09, 

It follows that the earnings made by the company on its in- 
vested funds, have exceeded the death claims by $3,622,523.42 and 
the total expenses by $55,992,365.18. A record never equalled by 
any other company. 

The company issues every approved form of Life and Endow- 
ment policies, also special contracts by which an annuity for life can 
"be secured to the beneficiary, or payment of an annuity after the 
death of the insured to the beneficiary for 20 years and the full 
amount of the policy at the end of 20 years, or any time previous 
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Its rates and premiums are the same as all other standard 
companies, and the surplus returns in the past has been greater 
than those of any other company. 

All forms of policies in this great company not only afford pro- 
tection to the family of the insured in case of death, but a good in- 
vestment for the policy-holder in case he lives a certain number of 
years. The advantages of endowment and insurance are combined 
in the ordinary life insurance policy of this company. 

JACOB FRANCIS FORCE 

Jacob Francis Force was born March 2, 1843, at Stillwater, 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. He received his education in the public 
schools and academy of his native village: in i860 removed to 
Newark, N. J., and was engaged for two years in mercantile pur- 
suits; returned to Stillwater in the spring of 1862, and on the 13th 
of August, 1862, enlisted in Captain Vandenburgh's Company K, 
of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment New Y'ork Vol- 
unteers, then being raised at Troy, N. Y. He was mustered in 
with the regiment and left with it for the front, August 30, 1862. 
Was with the regiment continuously from that time until January 
8, 1864. At Martinsburg, Va., he was made corporal and was 
promoted to fourth sergeant at Union Mills, Va., January 8, 1863, 
by Levin Crandall, Lieutenant-Colonel comanding regiment; on the 
22nd of April, 1863, he was made first sergeant of the company. 
He was the first orderly sergeant of the regiment to call the roll 
of the company from memory, which being noticed by Colonel 
Willard, an order was issued requiring all first sergeants in the 
regiment to commit the roll of names to memory. December 31, 
1863, he was discharged as an enlisted man by order of the War 
Department in order to accept an appointment as first lieutenant in 
the Twenty-second United States Colored Troops, then organizing 
at Philadelphia, Pa. Before leaving the regiment, January 8, 1864, 
he was presented with a sabre, belt and gloves by the members of 
K Company, the presentation being made by Chaplain E. D. 
Simons. After joining the Twenty-second U. S. Colored Troops, 
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captain of the same company, and with his regiment participated in 
repulsing attacks on Wilson's Wharf and Fort Powhatan on the 
James River, and on June 15, 1864, was with the advance on 
Petersburg, his regiment leading the first charge. He performed 
duty in the trenches and on picket continually from this time until 
in September, when his regiment was ordered to Dutch Gap Canal 
to assist in its construction. September 29, he took part in a 
charge on New Market Heights, and on September 30, while re- 




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pulsing the enemy in their attempt to retake Fort Harrison, he was 
wounded in the left shoulder. Complete removal of several inches 
of bone from the upper portion of the left arm was the result, from 
which a fair recovery was made, and on April 10, 1865, he was 
discharged from the service by Special Order War Department 
"on account of wounds received in action." 

After the war Mr. Force acquired a thorough preparation for 
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at Heron Lake, where he practiced medicine most successfully 
for thirteen years. While at Heron Lake he was appointed 
postmaster. 

He was, also, from 1872 to 1875, examining surgeon of the 
United States Pension Bureau. In 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, 
where his rare professional ability and his manly Christian bearing 
brought him additional evidence of public esteem. 

He was soon made vice-president and lecturer of Materia- 
Medica in the Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
He was also elected a member of the State Medical Association. 
Dr. Force is an official member of Foss Church and superintendent 
of its Sunday School, having occupied that position with great 
acceptability for a number of years. 

He is treasurer of the Northwestern Life Association, a 
director in the Metropolitan Bank, chairman of the medical section 
of the National Association of the Mutual Life & Accident Under- 
writers and an honored member of the Minnesota Commandery of 
the Loyal Legion. He is thoroughly identified with the many in- 
terests of Minneapolis and has contributed in no small degree to 
their development. As a Methodist, he is in touch with all the 
movements of the church. 

FREDRICK C. SAMMIS 

Fredrick C. Sammis was born in 
New York City, November 21, 1867. 
While yet a small boy his parents 
moved to the country and built a home 
in Westchester Co. He attended the 
public schools and Bradford prepara- 
tory school at Rye, under the direction 
of Charles Jevvitt Collins, a retired 
Presbyterian minister and a warm 
friend of Dr. McCosh, of Princeton 
College. Here his first ambition w r as 
aroused for an education and a place 
among the successful men of the coun- 
FREDRICK C. SA.MMIS tr > 7 - His parents were Congregational- 

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pal Church While attending school, Dr. M. 13. Chapman was 
called to the pastorate of the church and during his ministry Mr. 
Sammis united with the church. During the pastorate of Dr. Chap- 
man he took a special interest in this young student and not only 
gave him excellent counsel and advice but opened his home to 
him, where, in fellowship with the members of the family and under 
the influence of strong Christian care, he made decided progress, 
not only in his literary work, but in his soul growth and spiritual 
life. 

At seventeen years of age, Mr. Henry Griffen, treasurer of 
the New York Bowery Fire Insurance Company, offered Mr. 
Sammis a position which he held until he came West in June, 1887. 
Since coming to Minneapolis he has engaged in various enter- 
prises and held positions of importance and trust. He is a member 
of the Hennepin Avenue Church and an active worker in the 
Christian Endeavor Society. 



EMERSON WESLEY WHEELOCK 

Emerson Wesley Wheelock was 
born in Lewis Co., N. Y., in 1862, of 
godly parentage. His early educa- 
tion was in the public schools. In 
1872 he left his Eastern home and 
friends and came to Minnesota. He 
entered the Congregational School at 
Northfield, Minn., in 1880, where 
he remained until 1885. While attend- 
ing this institution he was converted 
and identified himself with the Con- 
gregational Church. In 1887 he 
united with the old Centenary Church, 
Minneapolis, and is still a faithful mem- 
ber of Wesley Church. He is at pres- 
ent engaged in the United States Mail Service, but never becomes 
so absorbed in business that he has not' tin e lo perform the duties 
of an upright Christian and avail himself of the privileges and ser- 
vices of God's house. 




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JAMES T. WYMAN 

The subject of this sketch was born October 15, 1849, m 
Millbridge, Washington Co., Me. He was one of a family of 
twelve children, ten of whom are still living. His parents were 
John and Clarinda Wyman, descended from old Puritan stock, the 
family having first settled at Woburn, Mass., in 1640. After the 
close of the Revolutionary war, his great grandfather removed to 
Maine. 

Mr. Wyman lived in Millbridge until 1868, and received a 
good common school education. In the spring of 1868 he came 
to Minnesota, andlocated atNorthfield and attended Carleton College 
for one year. In 1869 he engaged in business in that village with 
his brother, operating a sash, door and blind factory and saw mill, 
but was burned out March 12, 1871, a most serious loss, as they 
had no insurance. His character for integrity was even then so 
well established, and his business habits so well formed, that he was 
able to borrow money on his own name and paid off every debt. 

In March, 1871, he came to Minneapolis and became superin- 
tendent of the sash, door and blind factory operated by Jothan 
G. Smith and L. D. Parker, then located on the west side saw- 
mill platform. In that capacity he developed such marked busi- 
ness ability that in 1874 ^ e became a partner, under the firm name 
of Smith, Parker & Co. In this business he has been an active 
partner ever since, the firm name since 188 1 having been Smith & 
Wyman, his partner being H. Alden Smith. 

It will thus be seen that Mr. Wyman has been a manufacturer 
for upwards of twenty years, and during the most of that time a 
proprietor in the business. The firm's business has been extensive, 
for man}' years having on its pay roll from 200 to 250 men, and on 
such just and equitable principles has their business been conducted, 
that rarely, if ever, has a complaint been heard from an employe. 

On September 3, 1873, Mr. Wyman was married to Miss 
Rosetta Lamberson, the daughter of a Methodist clergyman of 
Northfield, Minn. Seven children have been born to them of this 
union, four boys and three girls, as follows: Roy L., Guy A., Grace 
Alice, James C, Maud Ethelwynne, Earle F. and Ruth Wyman, 
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Mr. Wyman, while a most active and successful business man 
has by no means confined his energies to the prosecution of his private 
business. He has a strong faith in and love for the city of his 
adoption. Whenever and wherever he has seen opportunity to 
aid in advancing the general interests of the city, he is always 
among the foremost to seize it and push it to a successful 



JAMES T. WYMAN 



issue. He early became an active member of the Board of Trade, 
and did service for several years in that organization as chairman 
of the Committee on Manufactures. He was vice-president of the 
board in 1887, and was unanimously elected president in 1888 and 
also in 1889, and declined another re-election. He was one of the 



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original members of the Business Men's Union, organized in 1889, 
and also a member of the Board of Directors. 

Mr. Wyman was one of the most prominent in the organiza- 
tion of the Metropolitan Bank of Minneapolis in the spring of 1889, 
and in a few months after its organization he became its vice- 
president. At the first annual meeting of the bank he was elected 
president and has held the office ever since. 

Mr. Wyman is an official member of the Hennepin Avenue 
Church; and also for many years has been a trustee of Hamline 
University, the most important educational institution of that de- 
nomination in Minnesota, and for the last four years has been vice- 
president of the Board of Trustees of the college. 

The Associated Charities of Minneapolis is doing a most im- 
portant benevolent work for the city, in which Mr. Wyman has 
always taken a deep interest. He was chosen one of the first 
directors of the association, afterwards its president, and still holds 
the office of vice-president of the Board of Directors. 

With all these multiplied activities, to each of which he devotes 
its full share of time, it may well be inferred that Mr. Wyman is an 
unusually busy man. But these by no means comprehend the full 
measure of his public services. Other public organizations might 
be mentioned to which he has devoted no small amount of time 
Hardly any important public gathering is held, looking toward the 
advancement of the moral or material interests of the city, at which 
he is not invited to be present and participate. While he makes 
no pretensions to oratorical display or rhetorical effect, yet he never 
fails to command and hold the attention of his audience, and is a most 
convincing speaker on any subject he undertakes to handle. As 
an after-dinner speaker he is especially happy and never fails to 
''bring down the house," by his humor and wit, whose flavor does 
not require the adventitious aid of champagne (which he eschews) 
to make it truly enjoyable and delightful. 

Mr. Wyman has in politics always been recognized as a con- 
sistent republican. In 1892 was nominated by the Republican 
Party for the legislature from the 30th Legislative District. 
The nomination was greeted with enthusiasm by the people of 
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That he was the man peculiarly adapted to represent this dis- 
trict in which is the State University, was demonstrated by his 
record in the legislature. His University Bill, the most popular 
that has ever passed, placed the university on a footing with the public 
schools. He also received an appropriation for the university of 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 

It is not strange after such valuable service, that at the last 
election he was elected State Senator from the 30th District by an 
overwhelming majority. 

The character of Mr. Wyman, taken as a whole, illustrates the 
best traits of that New England race which has become the founder 
and builder of cities and states. Intelligence, enterprise, sagacity, 
public spirit, business integrity and honor, founded on a strong 
moral fibre, are characteristics of the man, standing out with re- 
markable prominence. He is yet comparatively a young man, 
hardly having reached the full maturity of his physical and 
mental powers, and a higher measure of success than he has yet 
achieved, is morally certain if his life is spared. 

Mr. Wyman has a delightful though modest home as a per- 
manent residence, on Fourth street southeast. He has also a very 
pleasant summer residence at Lake Minnetonka, where his family 
usually spend the summer season, surrounded with all the enjoy- 
ments for which that romantic lake has become famous. 

REV. FRANK PEABODY HARRIS 

Rev. Frank Peabody Harris, now pastor of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Marshall. Minn, was born in the town of 
Danvers, Mass., July 15, 1858. 

When three months old his parents removed to Annapolis 
county, Nova Scotia. Here upon his father's farm he spent the 
first eight years of his life, returning to Danvers at the age of nine. 
At the Boston St. Lvnn Church he was converted at the age of 
fourteen. He was educated in Danvers and Lynn common schools, 
Lynn High School, Fort Edward Collegiate Institute and graduated 
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REV. FRANK P. HARRIS 



B jston University, graduating from the 
Boston University School of Theology 
in 1888. 

His ministerial services have been 
Bridgetown, Me., where for six months 
he supplied, and where his first labors 
were blessed with a glorious revival in 
which over ninety souls were con- 
verted. Returning to Boston Univer- 
sity he established a new mission in 
Wyoma, Lynn, where his efforts were 
successful, and in two months the New 
Broad way Church was organized with 
a membership of eight in full connec- 
tion and fifty probationers. In this 
mission Mr. Harris received the special training in evangelical 
work that has so eminently fitted him for a successful career in the 
Christain ministrv : he learned to successfully reach and save the 
masses of the people. 

He served this church three years and in 18S9 was appointed 
to Byfield, Mass.: joined the Xew England in April, 1890, and at 
the same session transferred to the Minnesota Conference and 
was appointed to LeSueur charge to fill the unexpired year of the 
former pastor who had transferred to an Eastern Conference. 

In this Conference he has been pastor at Fairmont one vear, 
Blue Earth City two years, and in 1S93 was appointed to the 
Marshall charge. He inaugurated a series of special services on 
December 26, 1S93 that continued to April, 1894, in which two 
hundred persons were convened. Mr. Harris believes that each 
congregation has a distinct mission, that pastor and people should 
together engage in special service to save souls. For this reason 
he does not favor a so-called union revival service, employ any 
sensational methods, or a traveling; evangelist, but endeavors to 
enlist every member of his congregation in the work. His remark- 
able powers are shown in the fact that he preached twice a day 
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song services during this period. His remarkable gift in song and 
earnest exhortation reaches the hearts of the people. 

His revival efforts at country places were continued till July 2, 
and a hundred souls at these appointments have professed conver- 
sion, and two flourishing societies with a membership of one hun- 
dred and twenty have been organized. 

MRS. ANNA GOHEEN 

Mrs. Anna Goheen was born in Bellville, 111., or rather near 
the present city of Bellville, for at that time Illinois was a wilder- 
ness. She is the sister of Hugh, Thomas Asbury and William 
Harrison and like her deceased brothers, has devoted her life to 
the cause of Christ and the upbuilding of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Her father was Thomas Harrison, born December 13, i779> 
in York Co., S. C. When he was quite young, about two years 
old, his father removed to Rutherford Co., N. C. About the time 
of the removal to Rutherford county, his mother died. When he 
was about ten years old his father removed to the state of Georgia. 
Here the family remained until he was 19 years of age when his 
father again removed to North Carolina. In the year 1800, he 
was married to Miss Margaret Gilbreath, a lady of bright intellect, 
broad sympathies, deep consecration, and noble Christian character. 

Although her home was in the South, she could not tolerate 
slavery. She could not endure the thought of rearing children in 
the midst of such moral blight and social degredation. This ex- 
plains the fact that, in 1804, young Harrison and wife removed to 
the then Territory of Illinois, County of St. Clair. Here in their 
wild, western home, they struggled together against many obstacles 
and natural disadvantages. But they were more than equal to the 
emergency. The soil was cultivated, the wilderness conquered, 
the savage pacified, and the foundation of a great familv was laid. 
Children were born. So anxious were the parents that they should 
be educated, that out of their scanty savings, the elder son was 
sent away to school that he might teach the other children. Their 
married life was of fifty years duration, when it was terminated by the 



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death of Mrs. Harrison. Writing of her death, the Rev. John 
Scripps, says, "Another mother in Israel, in the person of Mrs. 
Margaret, wife of Rev. T. Harrison, of Bellville, aged 70 years, 
whose house in the long gone by of Western Methodist pioneering, 
was the welcome home of the weary itinerant. We found it such 
forty years ago, when our now sainted sister used to minister to 
our comfort, refresh our weariness, talk of heaven and even when 




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difficulties were before us, mount her horse and pilot us to our next 
appointment. Blessed saint. Long shall we cherish thy memory." 

Mr. Harrison was converted in 1802. It was a real conver- 
sion, permeating his whole being with the Christ life, and impell- 
ing him to a career of self-sacrifice and heroism for the Master. 
For a period of fifty-five years, he acted as steward, class leader 
and local preacher in the church. In i860, he came to Minneapo- 
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Nicollet avenue. He was a member of the Centenary Church 
until he died in 1867. His funeral was attended by a large con- 
course of friends. Drs. Chaffee and Quigly conducted the ser- 
vices. 

The daughter of such parents, it is not strange that the sub- 
ject of this sketch has played such an important part in the growth 
of Minneapolis Methodism. She began early in life to serve the 
church. When but a girl she was converted under the preaching 
of Dr. Wentworth and immediately united with the church. From 
that time she has been animated with the one ambition of building 
up the church of her father, and spreading the Redeemer's king- 
dom. In 1846 she was married to Dr. S. M. E. Goheen. He 
was practicing medicine in Lebanon, 111., and was also professor in 
the McKendree Collage at that time. Dr. Goheen was a man of 
unusual ability in his profession, and devotion to the church. He 
had already become known throughout the church on account of 
the heroic spirit that led him to consent to an appeal from our Mis- 
sionary Secretaries, to go to Africa and act as physician for the 
missionaries. Jn 1839 ne star ted upon this, at that time, perilous 
mission. 

Upon reaching Liberia, he became such an important factor, 
not only as a physician, but as a Christian worker that the affairs 
of the mission were practically placed in his hands. He stood at 
this post of duty for five years, and then returned to America. 

After his marriage to Miss Harrison, they settled in Lebanon, 
where he met with gratifying success in his profession. Later 
they moved to Bellville on account of the failing health of her 
parents. In 1852 Dr. Goheen went to California; this was dur- 
ing the great gold craze. Upon reaching California, Dr. Goheen 
had such a demand for his professional service, that he consented 
to practice for a while. This work proved fatal. His practice 
absorbed all his time, calls for help crowded upon him and al- 
though in a strange climate, his own health not the strongest, he 
found no rest. He was suddenly prostrated with a sickness from 
which he did not recover. He reached California in June and was 
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Just twenty years later, Mrs. Goheen visited California and 
stood by his lonely grave. She came to Minneapolis with her father 
in i860. At the first opportunity she united with the Centenary 
Church, in which she soon became preeminently useful. Her 
generosity never failed. She gave of her money without stint, 
and of her time and talents with enthusiastic love. Providence 
made her a central and efficient figure in the formation of the 




DR. S. M. E. GOHEEN 

Hennepin Avenue Church. Her work is of the quiet order. She 
sounds no trumphet. She cannot be induced to talk about any- 
thing she has done. She walks alone with God and does his work 
without ostentation. 

It is doubtful whether there is a Methodist Church enter- 
prise in Minneapolis toward which she has not contributed. This 
liberality is not without sacrifice. She denies herself in many 
things in order to help many worthy causes. Her home is at 11 25 
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for a mere nominal sum, in order that Minneapolis might have an 
Episcopal residence. She is always bright and cheerful and 
scatters sunshine wherever she goes. May she be spared to 
Minneapolis Methodism for many years. 

REV. JOHN W. HILL, D. D. 

Rev. John W. Hill, D. D., is an honored member of the Cen- 
tral Ohio Conference, having continuously served in the active 
pastorate for over forty years. He is at present pastor at Dunkirk, 
Ohio. His grandparents on both sides were natives of Virginia, of 
sturdy stock, resolute and courageous, known for their patriotism 
and sterling qualities. His grandfather, William Hill, distinguished 
himself during the war of 181 2 for rare valor and patriotism. 

He and his wife emigrated from Virginia to Ohio at an early 
day and settled in Ross county. They were Methodists of the 
heroic type. Their house was a preaching place as well as a rent- 
ing place for the pioneer Methodist preachers of that period. 

John Hill, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 
1802. He was converted in childhood and became a preacher. 
His education was limited to the opportunities of the wilderness, 
but he had great natural endowments, both mental and muscular, 
and with all, a heart full of the love of Christ, set on fire by the 
Holy Spirit. He heard the call of the Master, and without hesi- 
tation or reservation, he swung his saddle bags onto his horse, 
leaped into the saddle, and started out through the dense forests 
and across the prairies as the embassador of Christ, preaching, 
praying and pleading with men everywhere to "be reconciled to 
God." His was not the artistic pulpit of modern times, set in a 
temple of magnificence, where the mellow notes of the statelv 
organ mingle with the praise and prayer of comfortable commun- 
icants. It was his saddle, or a box or stump, or improvized plat- 
form, or the bare ground, from which he preached to those hardy 
pioneers, brave men and women who left friends, home, comfort 
and happiness behind, and plunged out into the picket line of the 
nation, there to carve order out of chaos, transform the wilderness 
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and powder and love, build cities, enlarge commerce, found states, 
and create civilization. His voice was soon heard throughout the 
state, and he was known for his courage, conviction and consecra- 
tion. 

It was during this ministry that the subject of this sketch was 
born, January 23, 1831, in Fayette Co.. O., whither his father had 
moved after his marriage. Soon after this the family moved to 
Vanwert Co., O., and settled in the depth of a wilderness, 
which up to that time had been penetrated by but few white men. 
It was still the play ground of wild beasts and the camping ground 
or the battle field of painted savages. Yet it was civilization, for 
mother and home were there, and morning and evening a godly 
father would open the Book that has opened the ages, and read of 
deitv, duty and destiny, hope, happiness and heaven, and then bow 
with his loved ones in prayer and commit all their interests into 
the hands of the sleepless Watcher. 

Reared under such environment, pinched by povertv which 
was clean and independent, surrounded by hostile Indians and con- 
fronted with all the obstacles of an undeveloped countrv, there were 
great opportunities for physical development, but none for mental 
training. Nature seemed to sav, "Hew down the forests, cultivate 
the soil, modify the climate, annihilate the beasts of prey, civilize 
the red man, 'prepare ye the way of the Lord,' and the church, 
the schoolhouse, the court of justice, the bank and the factory will 
follow.*' The admonition was heeded, and the Hill family, of 
which voung John was no faltering spirit, went to work with a will 
to conquer the wilderness and make a place for their posterity. 
The father would lead the boys in their arduous labors during the 
week, and on Saturday night, start out into the darkness on his 
horse, following the bridle path for miles in order to reach his 
preaching points on Sunday. During his absence the mother 
would expound the Scriptures to her boys, show them the way of 
eternal life and plead with them to become followers of Christ. 
It was while the father was absent from home on his circuit, that 
his son John, named after him, was converted. It was a primitive 
conversion. He did not enter the kingdom of Christ by card, but 
by a change of heart. He was but a boy. but felt called to preach. 



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He realized his lack of education, and the more discouraging fact, 
that no opportunities were within his reach for acquiring an educa- 
tion. Besides he felt obliged to stay on the new farm with the family 
and contribute his part toward bringing it into a state of product- 
iveness. But all his days were visions of one great duty, and at 
night it hung over him like a pillar of fire. It would not vanish. 
It seemed like a great hand pointing the way of usefulness, hold- 
ing the promise of power and offering the key to eternal success. 
The untutored boy of the wilderness, who had never seen a college, 
nor dreamed of a theological seminary, yielded to the Divine call, 
and promised the Lord he would proclaim his gospel. 

He immediately began to prepare for the great work. He 
determined that he would become skillful in the few books that he 
possessed, viz., the Bible, a grammar, an arithmetic and a spelling 
book. The very poverty of his library, became the wealth of his 
intellect. He wore those books thread bare. They were pulver- 
ized and ground into the tissue and blood of his being. He could 
spell the book through both ways. He could recite grammatical 
rules, declensions and conjugations, parse with ease and analyze 
anything. He gained the reputation of a mathematical expert, and 
as for the Word of God, he was triple-plated with it. It honey- 
combed his soul, body and spirit. It electrified his brain, clarified 
his vision, quickened his conscience, purified his heart, and burned 
along the fibres of his spiritual nature like celestial fire. His Har- 
vard was before the old-fashioned fire place where he would work 
at his books under the light of the burning wood, frequently until 
morning would lift the curtain of night. 

He began preaching before he was twenty-one, and from the 
very start he handled the Word with great skill. His assertions 
were all backed up with the "Thus saith the Lord." His was the 
logic of eternal verities, more axiomatic than syllogistic. His 
early ministry was in the polemic period of theology. Heretics 
were going about determined to tear down the "faith once de- 
livered to the saints." The young preacher could not remain an 
idle spectator. His heart w r as in the fierce strife and his head 
must follow. He had no training in dogmatic theology, and this 
was a new field; but he resolved to master it, and go into strict 



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and rigid training for the conflict at hand. He procured a large 
volume of Lee's Theology, a work setting forth and establishing 
all the great fundamentals of Christian theology, perhaps more 
tersely and clearly for its size than any other book then extant. 
Within a few weeks the young theologian had completely mastered 
this volume. He ate, digested and assimilated its contents from 




REV. JOHN W. HILL, D. D. 

beginning to end, and could, without any hesitation, at a moment's 
notice focalize all its logical and scriptural argument on any con- 
troverted point in theology. Thus armed for the fray he entered 
the arena r where he engaged in several important discussions with 
Campbellites, Universalists, Unitarians, Atheists and Infidels. He 



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displayed great valor in every encounter. His logic, spontaneous 
wit, burning sarcasm, glowing eloquence and clear knowledge of 
the Scriptures never failed him; he was invincible. He seemed 
like one in a chariot drawn by steeds of fire over the heads of his 
antagonists. His fame as a debater became wide spread and he 
was called for from many quarters by the friends of the faith, to 
come and "lift up a standard against the enemies coming in like a 
flood." Not only was his early ministry thus marked by polemic 
success, but if possible, in a greater degree it was successful in 
arousing the public conscience on the slavery question, convincing 
and convicting sinners of their sins and leading them to the fountain 
of cleansing. Burdened for the salvation of souls and empowered 
from on high, he feared no danger, turned from no hardship, post- 
poned no duty, missed no appointment, sought no comfort, took no 
rest, nursed no selfish ambition, and with unflagging energy, 
unwearying patience, unfailing love and a faith incapable of be- 
wilderment, he gave himself to human need, sorrow, tears and sin, 
in order to supply the need through Christ, bring comfort for 
sorrow, joy for tears and pardon for sins. Before he was thirty 
years of age, many hundreds had been converted under his ministry. 

In 1862 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hughes, of Kalida, 
O.; her parents were natives of North Wales. They were strong 
Calvinistic Methodists, never missed morning and evening devo- 
tion, were rigid observers of the Sabbath, great lovers of the Bible, 
and intensely religious in all their daily w r alk and life. Coming 
from such a home, and having acquired a good education during 
her girlhood, she was w r ell-fitted for the work and worry of a 
Methodist preacher's wife. Reared in the Calvinistic faith, she 
was very quiet in her religious life, having been taught that "woman 
should adorn herself with modesty" and not be heard in the 
public congregation. This training, however, was soon to be re- 
vised in the light of Methodist fire and experience. She had been 
in the work but a few years when she saw that it was her 
privilege to be free in Christ Jesus, in whom the Apostle declares 
"there is neither male nor female, but every man a new creature." 
Acting under this light, she was enabled at the Arbana camp- 
meeting in Ohio, after a struggle lasting for several days, to cut 



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loose from pride and early training, timidity and unbelief and make 
a complete and lasting consecration of herself to God. That was 
an epoch in her life. It was the starting point of an experience that 
has widened and deepened with the passing years, and from which 
sweet streams of influence have flowed forth to turn moral aridity 
into flowering garden and verdant vale. 

During the twenty -five years that have interlapsed since then, 
naught has disbursed her soul's sweet peace, and there has been 
no time in w T hich she was not ready and willing to do or suffer 
the will of God. Clothed with such spiritual power, she has been 
of inestimable help to her husband in all the departments of his 
work; especially in revival work is she most gifted. We have 
seen whole congregations visibly affected by her pathetic appeals. 
In prayer she sweeps the whole catalogue of practical theology; 
yearns, weeps, agonizes, pleads with piercing tenderness and 
pathetic love, grasps the promises, lifts herself up to enlarged vision 
of human need and possibility, and to great visions of God and the 
Divine resources, and with the boldness of assured faith, importunes 
at the door of mercy, until all her needs are supplied, "according 
to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ." 

It is a noteworthy fact that at the same camp-meeting w r here 
his wife entered into the "vallev of blessing so sw^eet," Dr. Hill 
came into an experimental knowledge of the doctrine of perfect 
love as taught by John Wesley and as held by the Methodist 
Church. That experience wrought a great change in his ministry. 
He was able more than before to preach Christ as a perfect Savior 
and to offer salvation as a gift from God. His preaching, with the 
advance of time, has become richer, clearer, more spiritual and 
consequently more effective in converting sinners and lifting the 
church into a higher realm of religious experience. Wherever he 
has gone, spiritual victories have crowned his work. His preach- 
ing never creates strife or division in the church. He has witnessed 
over two thousand conversions, and received as many into the 
church. He has resolutely steered clear of cant, censoriousness 
and fanaticism. He preaches holiness as moral soundness — as the 
habit of agreeing with God. For many years he has been one of 
the prominent camp-meeting preachers of Ohio. His sermons on 



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these occasions have been baptised with pentecostal power, and 
not unfrequently have the vast multitudes broke into rejoicing and 
praised God in such a shout that the preacher was compelled to 
stop and wait for the spiritual storm to subside. He is a member 
of the Ohio State Holiness Camp-meeting Association. 

He has been an extensive writer for the periodicals of the 
church. He is most at home in the discussion of doctrinal subjects, 
which he does with the style of originality, the ease of familiarity 
and the skill of the logician. He is now in his sixty-third year, but 
has never been more effective with voice or pen. He has been a 
close student all his life, never allowing himself to lose step with 
the most advanced thought, or to advance so far as to lose sight of 
the great columner truths of revelation. At the last commence- 
ment of the Taylor University of Indiana, he received the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. 

He has traveled extensively in his own country, having crossed 
the continent several times and preached from ocean to ocean. 

As the time approaches for him to retire from the effective 
ranks, he is beset with glorious visions. The past is full of rejoic- 
ing, a picture of fidelity, made golden by the love that transfigures 
drudgery into glorious^privilege. The future is resplendent with 
the light of "many mansions," streaming through the veil of the 
invisible, to cheer with the hope of celestial dawning. The present 
is the vision of lingering opportunity to "fight the battles of the Lord" 
and help to usher in the millenium. 

Added to the comfort of such visions, is the joy of having two 
sons and one son-in-law engaged with him in the fields "white for 
the harvest." 

DR. LEVI HALL 

Dr. Levi Hall was born in Delaware, O., October 26, 1833,0! 
Episcopal parentage. He attended the public schools, and after- 
wards pursued a regular course in the Ohio Wesleyan University, 
located at Delaware, graduating and receiving the degree of Master 
of Arts. At ten years of age he was drawn into a Methodist re- 
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though but a child he saw his need of something more than 
baptism, the catechism and confirmation. He had a sense of guilt 
and felt his need of Christ. Before the meetings closed he was 
converted. So great was the change that occurred in him, his 
parents were not able to deny him the privilege of becoming a 




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Methodist. To the contrary, on the da) 7 that he united with the 
church they also handed in their names. Thus converted and 
brought into the church, he became very active in all the move- 
ments of the church. He had a real experience and it was a fountain 
of perennial enthusiasm, love, faith, hope and self-sacricfice in the 
cause of Christ. He was not content simply to be saved himself, 



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but felt a longing- for the salvation of his playmates. He would 
plead with them, pray for them, and hold on to them with the 
tenacity of a real spiritual leader, and many of them were thus, 
through his agency, brought to a saving knowledge of Christ. It 
was soon seen in the church that young Hall had rare gifts. It 
was whispered about long before he had reached his majority, 
that he was to be a minister. Finally, at the age of twenty, he was 
licensed by the church as a local preacher. 

In 1854 h e united with the Ohio Conference. His great 
ability as pastor and preacher soon brought him to the front and he 
occupied many of the best appointments in his Conference. 
Wherever he went revivals occurred, old debts were liquidated, 
large congregations were gathered together and the church was 
built up in deep piety. 

Dr. David Moore, D. D., editor of the Western Christian Ad- 
vocate, visited him during the Missionary Meeting that was held in 
Minneapolis, and in writing back to the Advocate, referred to Dr. 
Hall as the "popular and very successful pastor of the Ohio Con- 
ference." 

In 1873 he came to Minnesota where he continued in the active 
pastoral work until 1881. During this period he served the follow- 
ing charges: Austin; Foss Church, Minneapolis; Dover and Litch- 
field. 

During his ministerial days, he was constantly engaged in the 
study of medicine. He had a natural aptitude for it. He thus be- 
came well versed in medical science before he stopped preaching. 
So well informed was he that he frequently prescribed for his par- 
ishioners while he was in the regular pastoral work. Upon taking 
superannuated relations in his Conference he decided to complete 
his medical education as soon as possible. He attended lectures at 
the Hahnemann Medical College and in one year from the time 
he gave up the active work of the ministry, he received the de- 
gree of M. D. Since then he has practiced with great success in 
Minneapolis. His office is at his home, 77 Highland avenue. 

He is a member of the Wesley Quarterly Conference and is 
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He is in love with the Gospel. In the pulpit, he preached it 
in all its fulness, and now that he is in the pew, he is satisfied with 
nothing less than the "Old, old story." 

COLLINS HAMER 

Collins Hamer was born in Lancaster Co., Pa., September 4, 
1822. His parents were Solomon and Elizabeth Hamer, thoroughly 
set in the Methodist faith and enthusiastic in their devotion to the 
church. Their son Collins was given public school advantages 
and reared under the purest Christian influences. At the age of 
twenty-five he was converted and united with the Methodist 
Church. In 1852 he was married to Miss Mary Jane Rockey. 
In 1857 they came to Minneapolis. At that time Minneapolis was 
a village of less than 500 inhabitants. They at once united with 
the Methodist Church at the corner of Fourth street and Third 
avenue south, services being held in Woodman's Hall; J. D. Rich 
was the pastor. Mr. Hamer afterwards became a member of the 
Centenary Church. When Hennepin Avenue Church was organ- 
ized he was one of the leaders in the movement; he has since then 
served Hennepin in various official capacities. 

He is an earnest Christian and is greatly interested in the 
prosperity of his church. He is engaged in the real estate and 
rental business. 

J. S. WOODARD 

J. S. Woodard was born in New York in 1824. He points 
with pride to his staunch Methodist parentage, and doubtless this 
in part explains his great love and loyalty to the church. His 
secular education was acquired in the public schools, while in the 
Sunday School the seed was sown which is now bearing such 
fruitage in ripe, Christian character. Reared in a devoted, 
Christian home and brought up by pious parents under the influ- 
ence of the church, it is not surprising that his life has been one of 
fidelity to duty, consecration to Christ and faithfulness to the 
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any delay connected himself with the church of his parents. Thus 
it will be seen that Brother Woodard has been a Methodist for 
fifty years, and we may add that this has been a period, not of 
shirking or complaining of the church, or of its usages, but of 
activity, self-sacrifice and burning ambition to build up Methodism, 
and through it the kingdom of the Lord Christ. 




J. S. WOODARD 

He has served in all official capacities in the laity of the 
church, but has been especially gifted and successful in Sunday 
School work, having been Sunday School superintendent thirty 
years. At the age of twenty-three, he was united in marriage 
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unusual common sense, great courage, tireless energy and beautiful 
Christian bearing, are like threads of gold in the fabric of their 
home. In 1858 they came to Minnesota and settled in Rochester, 
where they remained for a period of twelve years. They then 
removed to Coldwater, remaining five years and then to Owatonna, 
where they lived prosperously for five more years. In all these 
places they were active and influential in the Methodist Church. 
In 1881 they came to Minneapolis, which has since been their home. 




RESIDENCE OF T. S. WOODARD 



During the great activity in real estate Mr. Woodard went 
into that business and was able to more than hold his own with all 
competitors. Their home is at 2214 Bryant avenue, which was 
the first house built in the Sunnyside Addition. 

Mr. and Mrs. Woodard have been connected with the Henne- 
pin Avenue Church since coming to Minneapolis, but owing to the 
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united wuh it. Mr. Woodard is one of the trustees, and has been 
very active in the promotion of the enterprise. 

They have three children living; Dr. F. R. Woodard, their 
son, is one of the leading physicians in Minneapolis. Their 
daughter, Grace, is a pianist of rare skill and ability; she has de- 
voted several yeai s to the study of instrumental music and she is 
well and favorably known in the highest musical circles of Minne- 
apolis. She is now engaged in teaching and has a large class of 
bright and promising pupils. 

Upon retiring from the real estate line, Mr. Woodard returned 
to the drug business, to which he has devoted the best years of his 
life, and purchased the Western Avenue Pharmacy. This is, 
without doubt one of the best equipped, and most attractive drug 
stores in the city of Minneapolis. It is located at 2 and 4 Western 
avenue and is easily accessible from most parts of the city. Its 
stock of drugs and instruments is the best that can be placed upon 
the market; in connection with this stock, a fine assortment of 
school supplies is carried, also a full line of novelty goods. All 
prescriptions are carefully compounded by an experienced and 
competent druggist. This store has been but recently opened and 
we bespeak for Brother Woodard a goodly share of the patronage 
of Minneapolis Methodism. 

DR. CHARLES H. NORRED 

Dr. Charles H. Norred is a native of the state of Virginia, 
where he was born in 1841. His parents removed to Illinois while 
he was a small child, and his early years were spent on his father's 
farm in that state. After leaving college he read medicine at 
Springfield with Dr. R. S. Lord, and received his medical educa- 
tion at Pope's Medical college, St. Louis. Early in 1865 he en- 
listed as a private in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois 
volunteers, and organized the first regimental hospital. He had 
been in the ranks but a short time when he was commissioned as 
assistant surgeon, from which time he served in various military 
hospitals, until he was ordered to the Seventh Illinois cavalry, and 
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he was on duty until the close of the war. The doctor afterwards 
graduated at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and also 
at the School of Anatomy and Surgery of Pennsylvania. Dr. 
Norred came to Minneapolis from Illinois about four years ago. 
He had practiced medicine in that state some twenty-five years, and 




DR. CHARLES H. NORRED 

his efficiency as a physician and surgeon is evidenced by the high- 
est indorsement from many of the most eminent citizens of that 
state, who have known the doctor for many years, including men 
of high rank in the United States army. 

Dr. Norred was United States Examining Surgeon, under 
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pathies, generous attitude toward the old soldiers and faithfulness 
to the duties of his office, placed him in high repute with the ad- 
ministration, as well as with every soldier in his district. He is at 
present Examining Surgeon for and Consulting Surgeon to the 
Minnesota State Soldiers' Home. As a physician he is fully abreast 
with the times. He is imbued with the unction of his profession, 
and places it above mercenary motives. In his practice he never 
stops to inquire into the financial ability of those who call him. 
His only question is "Can I render help?" Himself and wife are 
members of the Fowler Church. 

CHARLES CARROL CURTISS 

In the spring of 1874 Minneapolis was a different community 
than to-day. The entire county of Hennepin contained about 
forty-eight thousand inhabitants. Compared to the Minneapolis of 
this time the city then presented the appearance of a crude and un- 
finished but ambitious village. All of our great industries were in 
the period of infancy. The city's jobbing trade was small and insig- 
nificant. The East Division, formerly known as the city of St. 
Anthony, had only a year or two before laid down its corporate 
existence to become a part of the city proper. The old suspension 
bridge, constructed in 1852, was still the only means of inter-com- 
munication between the two divisions. Pence Opera House was 
the largest audience room and the only place of popular amusement 
in the city. None of the large and beautiful church buildings 
which now adorn our streets and avenues were then built. Nearly 
all of the commercial and financial transactions of the city w r ere 
done within walls of inferior brick or rude and primitive wocden 
structures. No street in the city had been paved, and foot passen- 
gers were compelled to be content with sidewalks of pine lumber, 
while dim and distant gas lamps pointed the local burglar to his 
prey. The Street Railway System existed only within the vivid 
imagination of Col. W. S. King, and the reportorial tramp; from 
Bridge Square to the court house was a Sabbath day's journey. 
Altogether we were a wild and woolly western village with large 
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Several unsuccessful attempts had been made to found com- 
mercial colleges and business schools in Minneapolis prior to 1874; 
but the effort had usually proved abortive. In 1873 the Barnard 
School of Business was located in what was then known as Harri- 
son's Hall, which occupied the third story of the large stone build- 
ing still standing on the southeast corner of Washington and Nicol- 
let avenues. The Barnard School was drifting slowly toward an 
early death, when, in the summer of 1873, Charles Carrol Curtiss 
arrived, filled with visions of the future commercial and financial 
prominence of the city. 

The hour had arrived; Mr. Curtiss was to prove that he was 
a man for the hour. He first entered the Barnard School as prin- 
cipal. A few months later, in 1874, he bought Mr. Barnard's 
interest and laid the foundations of the present commercial college. 

Five years later, or in 1879, ne established the twin school in 
St. Paul, and has since filled the want felt by the Twin Cities for 
high and judicious commercial and financial training. 

Fitted by nature and training for work of this character, Prof. 
Curtiss' institution has since kept pace with the industrial, financial 
and commercial development of the two cities. Wherever, through- 
out the northwest, business training is sought after, the Curtiss 
Commercial College is, and has been for two decades, a household 
word. 

Prof. Curtiss took his first professional steps in the public 
schools of central New York, finishing as a pupil of Hamilton 
Academy. In 1855, at the age of eighteen 3'ears, he adopted 
teaching as his life profession. This resolution once formed, he 
entered the Normal School, supporting himself by teaching until 
he was graduated in 1859. ^ s m * s ^ employment as a teacher was 
in the country school of his neighborhood. Later he was assistant 
principal of the House of Refuge, in New York City, an institution 
similar to our State Reform School at Red Wing. In i860 we find 
him principal of the public schools at Tarrytown, N. Y., which 
position he resigned in 1863 to become the principal of a high 
school at Sing Sing. Later he resigned this position and became 
accountant of the International Insurance Company, of New York 
City, and in this last position he was discovered by the celebrated 



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commercial college firm of Bryant & Stratton, who employed him 
as principal of their school at Poughkeepsie. From Poughkeep- 
sie he was transferred as superintendent of a similar institution in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. From Brooklyn he went to Oswego and was 
engaged for a time to superintend the Department of Accounts in 
the State Normal Schools of that city. In 1868 he came to Minne- 
sota and first cast his fortunes with the city of Rochester, Olmstead 
Co., where he was appointed superintendent of the the city schools. 
He resigned this position to accept the Department of Accounts in 
the Winona State Normal School, a position which he held for four 
3 r ears, while for one year he was in the service of the state, having 
supervision of the Department of Accounts in the three State Nor- 
mal Schools of Winona, Mankato and St. Cloud. This employment 
he left for the purpose of establishing the Curtiss Commercial 
College in Minneapolis and St. Paul. 

There is probably no branch of human knowledge where 
quacks and pretenders may so easily wax and grow fat as in the 
establishment of so-called commercial colleges. Professions of law, 
divinity, and medicine, have each thrown around their guild the 
protection of the law, or are guarded by social habits of fixed cus- 
toms. The quack in medicine, the petifogger in law, an imbecile 
in the pulpit, are all readily recognized; whereas, it may take years 
to tear the mask from the reputation and character of a scoundrel 
who seeks to rob the people of their money, under the pretense of 
instructing young men and women in the established rules of busi- 
ness. The pretender will always be exposed, but too often, not 
until his false and ignorant methods have done incalculable harm 
to the untrained and unsuspecting young people who have been 
deceived into trusting him. 

The first few months of the existence of the Curtiss Commer- 
cial College demonstrated that it was to be a fixed institution of the 
cities. The professor had become known to the educators of the 
entire state as an able and conscientious trainer of youth; his work 
received the cordial stamp of approval of the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, from the president and professors of the 
University of Minnesota; of the principals and teachers of all the 
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one of the best known colleges in central New York he had, un- 
solicited, received the degree of Master of Arts. In short, from 
the day he arrived in Minneapolis, his school was recognized by 
every trained educational intelligence, as a legitimate institution of 
technical training. Twenty years of active usefulness has only 
confirmed this reputation. 

The Curtiss Commercial College does something more than 
teach the established and technical rules which are supposed to 
govern and direct men and women in the active pursuit of gain. 
Especial importance is given, in the institution, to the ethics of 
trade, commerce and business generally. Systematic, methodical 
rules are popularly supposed to be essentially truthful. So well 
understood is this proposition that it has grown into a universal 
pruverb that "figures" cannot lie. The proverb is wrong. Figures 
not only can lie but they are perpetually made the medium through 
which the scoundrels of the world perpetrate every variety of ras- 
cality. No man knows so well as the trained statistician how simple 
it is to make arithmetical signs express half truths which deceive 
with more facility than absolute prevarication. 

It is the conscience of honest men and women that will not lie. 
When entire rectitude sits behind the figures then there is no chance 
for mendacity or deception. 



REV. EDWARD L. WATSON 

Rev. Edward L. W T atson, pastor of Hennepin Avenue Church, 
Minneapolis, w r as born in Baltimore, Md., February 6, 1861, of 
other than Methodist parentage. When about fifteen years of age 
he attended Methodist revival services and was converted. His 
education was received in the public schools of his native city, and 
in the John Hopkins University. Afterwards he pursued post- 
graduate studies in Shemitic, Philosophy, History and Sociology. 
In 1881 he entered the Baltimore Annual Conference of the M. 
E. Church, the Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson presiding. He has 
served charges as follows: Hancock, 188 1-1882; Montgomery, 
1&82-1884; Patapsco, 1884-1885. In 1885 he was associated with 



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the Rev. John F. Goucher, D. D., in the pastorate of the First M. 
E. Church, having special charge of the Royer Hill Church. After 
a pastorate of six years he saw the erection of the present Twenty- 
fourth Street Church in Baltimore. Lutherville, Md., was his 
next appointment, where he remained for three years, 1S91-1894. 
During this pastorate, for a time, he taught in the Woman's Col- 





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lege. February 6, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss Edith 
C. Hann, of Baltimore. At the session of the Baltimore Conference, 
March, 1894, he was sent to Frederick, Md., from which place, 
after a pastorate of seven months, he was transferred by Bishops 
Foss and Fowler, to his present charge. 



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COOPER W. LANDIS 




COOPER W. LANDIS 



Cooper W. .Landis was born in 
1866, near Paris, Tenn. His parents 
were members of the Disciple Church. 
His father stood at the head of the 
medical profession in that state, having 
occupied the chair of demonstrative 
anatomy in the Memphis Medical 
College. He began the study of medi- 
cine when but a boy, and its practice 
when he was nineteen years of age, 
continuing in it for thirtv years. The 
subject of this sketch was left alone in 
life at a very early age. His mother 
died when he was a child, and his father, 
when he was but twelve years of age. 

But coming from such ancestry he could scarcely do otherwise 
than get on in the world. He was all ambition. It was not that 
type of ambition, however, blind to the necessity of thorough equip- 
ment for the work of life. After his father had died, Mr. Landis 
would devote hours to looking over his books and reading the 
papers which he had prepared for his college classes and medical 
societies. 

While engaged in this pastime there came to him the con- 
viction that his life must be a blank unless brightened by the educa- 
tional acquirements that had given his father such poise in his 
profession. He began at once the struggle for mental and moral 
mastery. Perhaps it was the vow then taken that has kept him 
from the many vices that have precipitated the downfall of multi- 
tudes of young men. He attended the public schools until his re- 
sources were exhausted and he found it impossible to continue by 
his own unaided efforts. About this lime he heard of a Shaker 
settlement in Kentucky where boys were taken and educated for 
the work they would do upon the farm. This was just such an 
opportunity as he craved, and his name was soon enrolled on the 
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here for a year, diligently pursuing his studies, and faithfully per- 
forming the work to which he was assigned. Upon leaving the 
settlement, he entered the Murray Institute at Murray, Ky., and 
without friends or money, worked his way through it. 

We next find him in Kansas, engaged in journalism. His 
work in this department soon attracted the attention of some of the 
prominent men of the state, and drew about him many admirers 
and friends. He not only gained for himself the reputation of in- 
dustry and frugality, but he became known as a young man of un- 
swerving integrity. It was doubtless this reputation that lifted him 
into a prominent position in the Meade County National Bank, in 
which he remained for three years. He then went to Davenport 
and completed the regular course of the Iowa Commercial College. 
He was met at graduation with an urgent invitation to accept a 
position w r ith the American Mortgage Trust Company, which he 
did. He afterwards became identified with the Citizens' Invest- 
ment Company, of Kansas City. 

In 1890 he removed to Ogden, Utah, where he entered the 
fire insurance and loan business for himself. It was while he was 
at Ogden that he was converted, during a series of revival services 
which were being held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He soon became very influential in the church. His faithfulness to 
the church and everything involved in consistent Christian charac- 
ter attracted the attention of more than religious people, and he 
became known throughout the city as a godly young man. In the 
meantime his business was growing beyond all expectation, and 
soon became the strongest in its line in Ogden. In 1893 he was 
sought by Governor J. E. Rickards, of Helena, Mont., to take 
charge of his important real estate and insurance business. This 
position Mr. Landis accepted and occupied with great acceptancy 
for nearly a year. He then returned to Utah and resumed his for- 
mer business. He has recently accepted a position with the Corser- 
Belknap Fire Insurance Agency, of Minneapolis. Their office is 
at No. 211 New York Life Building. As this is perhaps the 
largest company of the kind in the Northwest, it gives Mr. Landis 
a large field for the exercise of his rare ability in the insurance 
line. The Corser-Belknap Agency represents the leading insur- 



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ance companies of the United States and the world, and has gained 
a reputation that requires no special comment or commendation. 
Mr. Landis and wife are members of the Fowler Church. We 
bespeak for him the success which he deserves in his new business 
field. 

THOMAS TAYLOR DRILL 

Thomas Taylor Drill was born in Birmingham, England, and 
comes of a musical family. He first commenced singing as a boy 
in the great choirs of New York City, viz: Old Trinity Church, and 
St. John's Chapel, where he was leading soprano boy several years, 
After his voice changed and he became a basso, he commenced, 
singing in the choir of St. John's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New 
York., which was in the latter part of the year 187 1. After this he 
became a member of the St. Ann Protestant Episcopal choir, 
Brooklyn, where he remained until the 1st of May, 1880, resigning 
to accept the position of second solo bass in the choir of Grace P. 
E. Church, Brooklyn Heights. In addition to this, he received ihe 
position of solo bass in St. Luke's Church, Brooklyn. The or- 
ganist and choir director of St. Luke's, was Prof. A. H. Mersiter, 
who was also organist and director of old Trinity Church, New 
York. Mr. Drill sang his first solo as a basso in St. Luke's, 
December 12, 1880, it being, "Look Down on Us," from Mendels- 
sohn's Elijah. While there he also sang, for the first time, the 
bass part in Haydn's Creation. 

He resigned his position in St. Luke's, March 26, 1881 to accept 
a position in St. John's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York, then 
and now, under the directorship of George F. Lejeune, one of the 
most famous hymn writers in the world. On October 1, 1881, 
Mr. Lejeune, who also had charge of the Church of the Trans- 
figuration, better known as the "Little Church Around the Cor- 
ner," having become thoroughly satisfied with Mr. Drill's work, 
gave him the more important position of solo bass in this time- 
honored church. Mr. Drill resigned this position December 1, 
1882, to become solo bass in the choir of the Church of the Re- 
deemer, Brooklyn, where he sang nearly a year, when he was re- 



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called to the choir of Grace P. E. Church, on Brooklyn Heights, 
from which he resigned in March, 1884, and after competition with 
several well known and good baritone and bass singers, he was 
engaged as solo bass in the University Place Presbyterian Church. 
The committee of this church, which engaged Mr. Drill, consisted 




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of two famous publishers, viz: Mr. Moses W. Dodd, of the firm 
of Dodd, Meade & Co., and George R. Lockwood, of the firm of 
George R. Lockwood & Co. May 1, 1885, Mr. Drill accepted an 
engagement in Christ's P. E. Church, Brooklyn, in which church, 
he was subsequently married. The tenor in this choir was the 
celebrated tenor and vocal teacher, Mr. William Courtney. 



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In the early part of 1885, Mr. Drill was elected a member of 
the Apollo Club of Brooklyn, which was under the leading writer 
of church music — Dudley Buck. May 1, 1888, Mr. Drill accepted 
his first engagement with the Methodist Episcopal Church, which 
was the St. Pauls Church, of New York City. During the season 
of 1887 and 1888, he sang with George F. Lejeune in his St. 
John's Chapel choir, at the grand choral services, which he gave 
every Sunday afternoon in the Church of the Holy Spirit. Among 
the works rendered were Rebecca, Stabat Mater, (Rossini) ; Holy, 
City, (Gaul); Ruth (Gaul); Elijah, (Mendelssohn); Abraham 
(Molique); Moses in Egypt, (Rossini); Creation and Seasons, 
(Haydn); Athalie (Mendelssohn). 

Mr. Drill has had the finest possible advantages in the develop- 
ment of his voice. He began to study with Ivan Morawski, and 
continued with him for one year and a half, and then placed him- 
self in the hands of Mr. William Courtney, who stands without a 
peer, as a teacher of oratorio and artistic singing with whom he 
studied for about three years, during which time he made a specialty 
of the study of Oratorio Music. 

During the visit to this country of the great baritone, M. Jaques 
Bouhy, (the original "Toreador" in Bizets's opera "Carmen") Mr. 
Drill had the advantage of a thorough course of voice culture and 
dramatic singing, as he studied with him steadily, taking never less 
than three lessons every week. Mr. Drill was well and favorably 
known in New York City and vicinity, as a glance at his scrap- 
book will show, and received many fine engagements there. He 
was chosen by the great composer, Dudley Buck, to create the very 
important and trying role of "Christopher Columbus" in his dra- 
matic cantata, of that name, and after the performance, which took 
place at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn on December 7, 1886, 
Mr Drill was highly complimented by Mr. Buck on his artistic 
work. He was again engaged by Dudley Buck to repeat his per- 
formance at the "Festival of American Music" given in Chicker- 
ing Hall, New York City, during the week commencing November 
16, 1887, under the direction of Frank Von Der Stucken. Upon 
Mr. Buck's learning of Mr. Drill's intention of leaving New York 
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we quote the following: "I learn that you have finally decided to 
go West. You will be a musical loss to us, but a gain wherever 
you may locate. You will doubtless soon find your musical affini- 
ties and make the mark your voice well deserves." 

The newspapers of New York, Brooklyn and vicinity speak 
in the highest terms of Mr. Drill's ability as an artistic vocalist. 
His voice isfa basso cantante of large range and power; sympa- 
thetic and dramatic. He makes a specialty of enunciation and pro- 
nunciation, as those who have heard him can testify. His work 
as a vocalist and teacher in Minneapolis, where he has been very 
successful, is well known. 

He has won for himself the high esteem of the public and 
made an enviable name. On great occasions, when the best ability 
is in demand, he is invariably called upon for service. He conducted 
the Harvest Festival Chorus a few years since at the Grand 
Opera House, and also had charge of the male chorus of the Re- 
publican National Convention in 1892. He is at present, and has 
been since his arrival in Minneapolis, the solo basso and director 
of the music in the Hennepin Avenue Church, and his choral 
services in that church have been thoroughly enjoyable. Since 
taking charge of this choir, he has made a specialty of choral 
services. He has produced at different times the Creation by 
Haydn ; the Stabat Mater, by Rossini ; the Daughter of Jairus, by 
Stainer; Ruth, by Gaul, and The Passion, by Haydn; the last three 
of which being thus produced for the first time in the Northwest. 
Mr. Drill also organized and put the boys' choir into the St. Paul's 
Episcopal Courch on Hennepin avenue. As a teacher he takes 
first rank. He has given to Minneapolis and the public some of 
the brightest talent. 

Mr. Renssalaer Wheeler, who is singing with great success 
in Great Britain, Miss Maude C. Kelley, Mrs. W. S. Thomson 
and Mr. George N. Tate, of the Hennepin Avenue choir and Miss 
Grace FitzGerald, daughter of Bishop FitzGerald, all owe their 
musical popularity to the faithful tutorage of Mr. Drill. As a man 
he is broad in his views, liberal in his feelings, energetic in his 
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He is known better than any oth e r vocalist west of Chicago, and 
being but a young man, his many admirers anticipate for him a 
career of unusual success and renown. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NELSON 

A generation has passed since the close of the war of the 
Rebellion. The survivors of its contests in arms, have crossed 
the meridian of life. Their animosities have softened, their judg- 
ments matured, and their love for a common union, strengthened, 
or if once alienated, has been restored. Those who once wore the 
blue fraternize with those who donned the gray, and the acrimonies 
which were once bitter between them, have melted into a common 
respect. Minneapolis entered into the struggle with enthusiasm, 
and sent her choicest citizens to the front. But she has always 
been kind and tolerant to those who were on the other side. Her 
cosmopolitan population cherish neither bigotry nor proscription. 
Thus, she made a celebrated confederate general her city engineer, 
and elected one who bore arms against her in Virginia to her chief 
magistracy. With similar courtesy and forbearance she received 
Mr. Nelson, after the war was over, and has entrusted to him her 
dearest interests, and placed upon him her chief honors. And no 
one, born within her own limits, and following her tattered flags, 
could more loyally and honorably bear them than he. 

Benjamin F. Nelson was born in Lewis Co., Ky., on the 4th 
of May, 1843. His parents were natives of Somerset Co., Mary- 
land. His father was in infirm health, and the support of the 
family devolved upon the sons. The necessities of earning a living 
turned his early efforts into industrial lines, and left but fragmen- 
tary times for attendance at school. At seventeen years of age he 
engaged with a partner in the lumber business, which at first pro- 
mising success, was after two vears broken up by the war. An 
attempt at farming shared the same fate. It will be remembered 
that the state of Kentucky was debatable ground in the early part 
of the war. She was a slave holding state, and most of her citizens 
sympathized with the confederacy; but the state was held by the 
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such of her people as chose to join the rebellion, had not the ex- 
cuse of loyalty to the state. Nevertheless a large part of them 
chose to join the south in arms. Among such was young Nelson, 
who at nineteen, with a firm conviction of doing right, and animated 
with the contagious spirit of his section, enlisted in 1862 in Com- 
pany C. of the second Kentucky battalion, and went immediately 
into active service, under the command of General Kirby Smith. 

During the next two years his campaigning was active and 
laborious, extending into Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and Geor- 
gia. He served successively under Humphrey, Marshall, Wheeler, 
Forrest and John Morgan, and participated in the battles of Chica- 
maugua, McMinnville, Shelbyville, Lookout Mountain, Sterling 
and Greenville. The marchings were rapid and exhausting, the 
raids spirited and the fighting severe; but he escaped all the perils 
of the march, the field and the camp. In 1864 he was detached 
upon recruiting duty in Kentucky, and venturing within the fed- 
eral lines, as far as the Ohio river, he had secured a few recruits, 
and returning was captured and sent to Lexington and placed in 
close confinement. There two of his unfortunate recruits were 
executed, and it was for a time uncertain but that he might be 
treated as a spy. He was, however, held as a prisoner of war, and 
sent to Camp Douglas, in Chicago, where he was detained in cus- 
tody until 1865, when he was sent to Richmond; and at the close 
of the war, in accordance with the liberal terms accorded by Gen- 
eral Grant, upon Lee's surrender, he was paroled. 

After the war he returned to Lewis Co., Ky., where he re- 
mained through the summer working in a saw mill until the latter 
part of August, when he decided to try his fortune in the far west. 
The south, with its sleepy manners and customs was too slow for 
the man of ambition and enterprise that young Benjamin now was, 
and on the 3rd day of September, 1865, he set foot in the then 
little town of St. Paul, Minn. .Only one day did he remain there, 
but came on to the Falls of St. Anthony to look for work in the 
mills, if possible. While walking about the village of St. Anthony 
that day he wandered down near where the university now stands 
and lay down on the grass. In this position he studied the Falls of 
St. Anthony, which were before him, and estimated their power, 



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which was then going to waste. He fully made up his mind that he 
was tying on the site of a city that would some day be a great one, 
because of the power in the falls. He estimated the power at 
100,000 horse power, and it has since been proved that the esti- 
mate was right. 




BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NELSON 



Fully resolved to make St. Anthony his home, Mr. Nelson 
went to work rafting lumber, to be sent down the river, as there 
were then no railroads into the city. When the season was over he 
took up a claim near Waverly, built a house, and staid a few nights, 
but again decided that he did not care about farming. That win- 
ter he chopped wood at Watertown, Minn., and when the spring 



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opened up he came back to Minneapolis and went to work in the 
saw mills. The next winter he contracted to haul logs at Lake 
Winsted. This venture was not a success, and so in the spring he 
began to work in a shingle mill, where he remained two years. 
He then took the contract for making the shingles by the 1,000, and 
continued it for seven }^ears. The mill was owned by Martin & 
Brown at first and the firm was then changed to Butler & Mills. 
In this venture Mr. Nelson saved some money, and in 1872 he 
formed a partnership with Warren C. Stetson. 

This firm started a planing mill, and as the business grew, the 
St. Louis mill was built. The partnership was dissolved a few 
years later, Mr. Stetson taking the old mill, called the Pacific, and 
Mr. Nelson retaining the St. Louis mill. Through the planing 
work he entered the lumber business, taking lumber as pay for 
planing. The trade increased until the year 1881, when Mr. Nel- 
son took into business with him W. M. Tenney and H. W. McNair, 
under the firm name of Nelson, Tenney & Co. This firm con- 
tinued, H. B. Fry entering a few years later,' and Mr. McNair 
retiring. W. F. Brooks afterwards was added to the firm, which 
in 1882 bought the old Fred Clarke saw mill, and began the manu- 
facturing of lumber on a small scale. Only a few millions of feet 
were made at first, but the business grew with the city, until last 
year 50,000,000 feet of lumber were manufactured by the firm. 

The plant contains two large mills and a smaller one, together 
capable of cutting 100,000,000 feet if necessary. Thus it is seen 
how a man of ambition and energy, as B. F. Nelson, was able to 
work upward, starting without a dollar, until now he is at the head 
of one of the largest lumber manufacturing enterprises in the 
North w r est. 

Mr, Nelson is also interested in the Nelson Paper Company, 
being founder and president, as well as president of the Hennepin 
Paper Company, at Little Falls, Minn. 

While giving his attention primarily to his large business 
affairs, Mr. Nelson has been called to perform important civic 
duties. In 1879 he was elected alderman of the first ward of the 
city of Minneapolis, and served as a member of the City C ouncil 
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after the organization of that important branch of the municipal 
government in 1883, and was an active participant in adopting the 
park system which has added so much to the beauty of the city. 
He also served as a member of the Board of Education for seven 
consecutive years, from 1884 to 1891, a service of little eclat be- 
fore the public, but one of the most useful and responsible in the 
city government. 

Mr. Nelson has been twice married, first in 1869 to Martha 
Ross who died five years later, leaving two sons, William E. and 
Guy H. His present wife was Mary Fredingburg, who bore him 
one daughter, Bessie E. 

His religious connection is with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, of which he is an active member, administering one of its 
most important educational trusts, as trustee of Hamline Univer- 
sity. He is an official member of the First Church. 

His social and charitable inclinations have found abundant oc- 
cupation in Masonic affiliation, in which mystic order he has re- 
ceived the highest degree. 

In politics he is a democrat, not of the demostrative sort, but 
quietly and firmly holding the political doctrines of Thomas Jeffer- 
son. These led him in youth to take up arms in defence of state 
rights, and throughout all his years of active life he has steadfastly 
adhered to the idea of a simple, honest, democratic government. 

Take him all in all, Mr. Nelson is a unique man. His coun- 
terpart is rarely found. Accepting the lot of common labor, his integri- 
ty, industry and sagacity have raised him to the front rank of business 
men and made his career a conspicuous success. Coming to an 
unsympathizing community without prestige or friends, he has 
been here entrusted with the most responsible public functions. 
In a city whose dominant majority do not espouse his political 
views, he occupies a position of influence and dignity. Simple in 
demeanor, unostentations in manner of life, quiet, thoughtful, 
almost sombre in aspect, he has attached friends of whom the 
most gifted might be proud. He is spare, erect, sedate. Not yet 
in his climacteric, there is yet unattained success before him. 



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A. B. RUGG 

A. B. Rugg, the popular photographer of this city, was born 
in South Lancaster, Mass., September u, 1853. When he was 
10 years of age his parents moved to Fitchbury, Mass., where he 
received a common school education. In 1870, when 17 years old 
he apprenticed himself to Mr. J. C. Moulten, of Fitchburg, the 
most prominent photographer of that place, and one of the leading 
photographers of Worcester Co. Three weeks had hardly elapsed 
after his entrance into the studio, when circumstances happened 
that tested his resources and ingenuity to quite an extent. Mr. 
Moulton was taken suddenly ill, and at that time the only other 
employe was a young lady clerk who did the finishing. Thus sud- 
denly dropped upon the shoulders of young Rugg, the responsi- 
bility of a photographic studio in full blast. Plates and chemicals 
were not furnished ready to hand in those days, and you can 
imagine it was something of a task for a young man of 17 years, 
who had hardly learned to develop plates property, to try and take 
the place of a man who had made the first daguerrotypes in that 
section, and who was familiar with photography from A to Z. 
But Rugg had come to learn the business and this was his oppor- 
tunity; by taking proofs and negatives to Mr. Moulton's sick 
chamber every night, and getting criticisms and instructions, the 
business went on as usual during the three weeks that the proprietor 
was ill. Thus Mr. Rugg demonstrated his ability to save a busi- 
ness man even before he had acquired any experience or knowledge 
of the profession. 

In 1873 ne went into business for himself in a small inland 
town, but not proving very successful he sold out and went to 
Boston where he served as operator for two years, at the end of 
which time he was induced to go to Florida for the purpose of be- 
coming an orange grower; but this proved an entire failure and he 
lost everything, and he was obliged to work his way to New Or- 
leans where he got a situation at the old business with W. W. 
Washburn, in one of the leading galleries of that city. Owing to 
malarial troubles he was obliged to come north, and came up the 
Mississippi river to LaCrosse, Wis., where he was operator in the 



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leading studio for a year and a half. In 1879 ne came to Minne- 
apolis and in the fall of that year purchased the studio of Wm. 
Brown, then situated in the old Merchant's Block, corner of First 
avenue south and Washington. When this block was torn down 




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Mr. Rugg fitted up an elegant studio in the Dolly Varden Block on 
Nicollet avenue; later, as business moved up the avenue, he fitted 
up the first ground floor studio of any size at 56 Fifth street south, 
where he soon became one of the leading photographers of the 



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city. This studio was lately removed to make room for the large 
Olson Block, and Mr. Rugg can now be found at his elegant 
ground floor .establishment at 116 Sixth street south, where anyone 
wishing to avail themselves of his large and varied experience will 
find it to their advantage to do so. 

Mr. Rugg's experience in photographing people of all nation- 
alities, coupled with his skill as an artist, will insure satisfaction to 
all his patrons, and his large studio at 116 Sixth street south, fitted 
expressly for the art, should be seen to be appreciated. 

SAN ANGELO HOTEL 

This house ranks among the very best family hotels in Minne- 
apolis. It has been under its present management for seven years 
and has steadily increased in popularity. It is under complete 
hotel equipment, is modern in all its conveniences and appliances, and 
in its service and appointments meets the demands of the most 
fastidious. It has seventy-five large, well lighted, clean, comfort- 
able and well arranged rooms. The rooms are all exposed to the 
sunlight and are not only convenient within, but afford an excellent 
outlook. It is located near the corner of Thirteenth street and 
Nicollet avenue and owing to its central location is easily accessible 
from all parts of the city. M, C. Shomburg, the popular proprie- 
tor, has had years of experience in the hotel business and seems to 
have an instinctive, as well as acquired ability to meet all the re- 
quirements necessary to the most successful prosecution of the busi- 
ness. He is genial and wide-awake. He takes special delight in 
accommodating his guests and meeting their every want. 

Without great advertisement of effort beyond that involved in 
maintaining a first-class house, the San Angelo has become favor- 
ably known among the best boarding families of the city, and has 
drawn to itself a large number of patrons of this class. 

M. E. WALLACE 

M. E. Wallace stands at the head of the leading millinery 
house in Minneapolis and the Northwest. His successful business 
operated at 515 and 517 Nicollet avenue is the creation of his rare 



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tact, unsullied integrity, public spirit and phenomenal business 
genius. He began on Nicollet, avenue about six years ago, at that 
time just struggling into commercial life. The attractive view 
appearing with this sketch shows at least in some degree, the result 
of his arduous efforts. Mr. ^Wallace has won the reputation of 
being an honest man. He has not only made it a rule to sell for 
the smallest possible profit, but also to handle first class goods, and 
correct styles. This, with the qualities above referred to, explains 













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why, in the face of hard times, his business has outgrown the 
double store at 403 aud 405 Nicollet avenue. The new store in 
the Syndicate block has been fitted up regardless of expense, in 
elegant, artistic fixtures; the parlors and French pattern rooms are 
a perfect palace, fitted in beautiful designs of cherry cases, mirrors 
and imported carpets. The ladies highly appreciate these beau- 
tiful select pattern rooms where they can take their time and 
comfort in selecting from the choicest imported millinery in the 



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market. It is the pride of Minneapolis that such a magnificent 
house has a place in her commercial circle. Perhaps no house 
in the country displays more exclusive designs in imported novelties 
and patterns. It also has a large assortment of medium priced 
goods. The large and elegant rooms are always filled with an 
appreciative and patronizing people, which, within itself is a 
sufficient and most substantial recognition. 

THE JOURNAL 

The making of a great daily newspaper involves the expen- 
diture of a great deal of effort and a great deal of money. The 
Journal, as it stands to-day, is the project of years of hard and 
careful work, and has cost large sums of money. That the effort 
and the money have been wisely expended, however, is demon- 
strated by the success which the paper has attained. With a daily 
circulation of 40,000 copies, it stands far in the lead of any of its 
contemporaries in the Northwest, and by reason of the extent of 
its circulation and the quality of its reading constituency it enjoys 
the finest advertising patronage accorded to any paper in Minne- 
sota. 

Probably no paper published anywhere in this country covers 
its own field as thoroughly as does The Journal. The territory in 
which it circulates, including Minneapolis, comprises Minnesota, 
the northwestern half of Wisconsin, northern part of Iowa, a large 
section of Northern Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, 
Manitoba, Northern Idaho, Montana and westward to the coast. 

For the printing of a paper of this character the best 
mechanical devices are required. The Journal is up to the times. 
It is set on the Mergenthaler Linotype, or typesetting machines. 
Eleven of these marvels of mechanical ingenuity are required to 
set the tvpe for The Journal. Each machine has a keyboard not 
unlike that of a typewriter. At the top of the machine, spreading 
out somewhat like a fan, is a large magazine, divided lengthwise 
into compartments which contain small, flat pieces of brass. These 
pieces of brass are each stamped upon the edge by a die with a 
letter of the alphabet, or some other character used in printing. 



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The operator playing upon the keyboard, by mechanical action, 
releases one at a time these small pieces of brass, or matrices, and 
they fall by gravity into their proper position in line. Spaces to 
fill between the words are brought down from a separate magazine 
in the same way as the matrices, and when a line has been set and 
adjusted, that is to say, made of the exact length required by the 
the adjustment of spaces, it is taken automatically to a casting box, 
where a stream of hot metal is injected into the face of the mat- 
rices and an impression taken of whatever words they contain. 
The casting is in the form of a line of type all in one piece. When 
the line is cast the matrices are automatically lifted from the cast- 
ing box, carried to a distributor, which is a revolving screw, and 
each one is deposited in its proper compartment, the selection 
being made by the machine in accordance with a system of nicks, 
much upon the principle of the conbination of notches on the edge 
of a Yale lock key. These machines are ordinarily operated at a 
speed of about 4,500 ems an hour. This is equivalent to the work 
of at least four printers setting movable type by hand. 

Not only has The Journal recently equipped itself with the 
Mergenthaler typesetting machines, but it has substituted for three 
presses, of a capacity of 12,000 an hour each, two new presses, 
each having a capacity of 30,000 8-page Journals, or 15,000 of a 
large size, an hour. Each of these presses prints from three con- 
tinuous rolls of paper, each roll weighing 600 pounds. It cuts, 
pastes, folds and delivers the papers counted in bundles. It will 
print 6, 7 or 8 columns to a page, and will print as many as 24 
pages inserted in regular book form order, the first and 24th pages 
being on the same sheet. And they are the only presses that will 
do this. These presses are also built to print in colors, and will 
print, as desired, one, two or three different colors while the paper 
passes through the press once. Two of these presses are in oper- 
ation, and a third has been ordered. The builders are the Sey- 
mour-Brewer Printing Press Company, of Chicago, 111. These 
presses may be seen in operation by the public every afternoon 
from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m., an elevated platform being erected in the 
press room, where visitors may watch the working of these won- 
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But the rapid printing of news is no more essential then the 
free delivery of the papers after they are printed. The Journal 
has in the city of Minneapolis over 100 regular carriers. 

Between 400 and 500 newsboys sell The Journal on the streets 
of Minneapolis every evening. The Journal is comfortably estab- 
lished in its own building, erected five years agfo, and arranged 
with especial reference to its requirements and convenience. It 
views with satisfaction the progress that it has made thus far 
under its present management, and, from the vantage ground of 
the highest point in its success and prosperity, it looks to a more 
prosperous future and to greater achievements than it has ever 
attained. 

JASPER W. EARL 

Jasper W. Earl is a native of Carthage, Hancock Co., 111., and 
was born in the year 1S49. 

His paren ts were Harry and Eunice Howd Earl, who were 
natives of Camden, Oneida Co., N. Y. The father, through many 
years of his life, followed the occupation of farming. For some 
time he followed this business in the state of Illinois, and in 1856 
migrated to Minnesota, settling near Mankato. He died February 
19, 1894. His father was John Earl, a native of Germany, who. 
on coming to America, settled in New York State, where he fol- 
lowed the business of farming. He reared a family of nine children. 
The mother of the subject of our sketch was the daughter of Joel 
Howd, a native of one of the eastern states, and by occupation a 
farmer. 

His parents, who were patriotic Americans, reared a family of 
six children, four of whom are now living — Sarah, now Mrs. Deni- 
son; Cecelia, now Mrs. Hanson: Theresa, now Mrs. Kneutson, 
and Jasper W. The father was formerly a republican in politics, 
but in later years joined the prohibition party. He was a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal church. The mother died August 
12. 1887. 

The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm, remaining 
under the parental roof until he was 19 yearsof age. He received 



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a good common school education, and also took a course in the 
Bryant & Stratton business college, of Chicago, 111. After com- 
pleting his course in this institution he was engaged as book-keeper 
for Lloyd & Hunter for two years. At the end of this time he 
went to Montana Territory, where he engaged in book-keeping 
for three years, and during this time was in the employ of Dahler, 
Armstrong & Co. He was also the first republican elected to office 
in Beaverhead Co., Montana Territory; that of county clerk and 
recorder. 

In 1875 Mr- Earl was married to Miss Ophelia Stowell, of 
Faribault, daughter of Paschal and Minerva Joslyn Stowell. 

In February, 1876, he came to Fergus Falls, Otter Tail Co., 
Minn., where he engaged in the insurance, loan and real estate 
business, in which he met with rare success. The popularity of 
Mr. Earl as a citizen is evinced by the fact that while at Fergus 
Falls he filled the office of city clerk and alderman, and was twice 
elected mayor, each time on the prohibition ticket. 

In 1889 Mr. Earl moved to Duluth, where he built up a pros- 
perous life insurance business. In 1891 he came to Minneapolis, 
where he has since lived, his home being at 2300 Aldrich avenue 
south. 

Mr. Earl and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, he being a member of the Official Board of the 
Fowler Church. 

Since coming to Minneapolis, he has been appointed to the 
responsible position of manager for the state of Minnesota, of the 
Bankers & Merchants Life Association of Illinois. 

CHARLES D. STRONG 

Charles D. Strong was born in Somersetshire, England, June 
19, 1808; the son of John and Elizabeth Strong. His parents 
emigrated to America in the spring of 1819, and located in the city 
of Montreal, Canada, where the subject of this sketch was edu- 
cated and grew to manhood. Mr. Strong served an apprentice- 
ship with Mr. H. H. Cunningham, the largest bookbinder and 
stationer in Montreal, and being employed in its various depart- 



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ments he had thoroughly mastered Hie business in 1828 when he 
removed to Boston. In 1829 Mr. Strong established himself as a 
bookbinder, and a few months later he opened a bookstore for the 
sale of religious books principally for the use of the Methodist 
denomination. This was the first store of that kind in New 
England. He started in a modest manner but soon increased his 




CHARLES D. STRONG 



operations bv publishing a large number of books of various 
descriptions. He led in the organization of the Wesleyan Asso- 
ciation, which had for its object the establishment of a Methodist 
paper, to be published in the interests of New England Methodism, 
and he assisted in the re-establishment of Zion's Herald, in Boston, 



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where that organ of Methodism is still published. Mr. Strong be- 
came engaged in the specialty of issuing books to be sold by sub- 
scription. He was one of the publishers of Mr. S. G. Goodrich's 
"Peter Parley"; the former well-known American author. Mr. 
Strong, was a brilliant writer, and has done very efficient work 
with his pen for Methodism. In the summer of 1859 ne removed 
to St. Paul, where he engaged in buying country produce and 
pork packing, being the first regular pork-packer in that city. 
Shortly after, he opened a retail grocery store which he conducted 
for two years. In i860 Mr. Strong purchased a retail hardware 
store of Mr. C. L. Grant which proved very lucrative. He was 
the founder of the extensive hardware store of Strong, Hackett Co. 

Mr. Strong has contributed extensively towards the growth of 
the city. He was one of the incorporators of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, and was its vice-president for several years. Mr. Strong 
married Miss Frances Wyman Gill in 1828. She died September 
19, 1843, leaving him nine children. His second marriage was to 
Mrs. Abigails. FitzGibbon. He united with the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church while a boy, and was always actively engaged in her 
cause. He was one cf the strongest members of the Central Park 
Church of St. Paul and was for years president of its board of 
trustees, and was one of the most honored members until his 
death. No one knows the extent of Mr. Strong's private charities. 
His strong and generous heart was always ready to help the poor. 
His kindly nature and his uniform, generous and sympathetic con- 
duct added to the purity of his private life, and his honorable record 
as a citizen and a Christian, have endeared him to all who knew 
him, and his memory will be long and gratefully cherished by 
posterity. He died in 1890. 

MRS. ABIGAIL SPURR STRONG 

Mrs. Abigail Spurr Strong, one of the foremost women in all 
reformatory and charitable work, was born at Annapolis, N. S., 
August 23, 181 1 ; daughter of Robert and Sarah Harris Jefferson, 
who were leading Methodists. Their home was always open to 
ministers of the Gospel and to the poor and friendless. Mrs. 



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Strong inherited the good qualities of her parents; she was con- 
verted and united with the Methodist Church in 183 1. She was 
united in matrimony August 24, 1835, to J onn J- FitzGibbon who 
was educated for the Episcopal ministry of the Church of England, 
and was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. She moved to 




MRS. ABIGAIL SPURR STRONG 



Boston, Mass., with her husband, where he began to prepare for 
missionary work and she identified herself prominently with the 
various organizations of her denomination. 

Her husband died September 28, 1839; on October 29, 1844, 
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publisher of religious works. Mrs. Strong continued in religious 
and charitable work in Boston until i860 and then removed to St. 
Paul, Minn., where she immediately identified herself with the old 
Jackson Street Church, of which Rev. Dr. Chaffee was pastor. 
The very first Sunday she attended this church she took charge of 
the infant class, and shortly after began to teach the Bible class 
and was superintendent of the female department. One morning 
when Mrs. Strong returned from church she found four little boys 
playing marbles in the street. She was so touched by their man- 
ners and appearance that she stopped and asked them why they 
did not attend Sunday School. The children replied, "we would 
like to attend Sunday School if we knew of one." Mrs. Strong 
invited them to come to her home the following Saturday. In the 
meantime she arranged with a good lady for music, and out of this 
small beginning grew the Mission Sunday School which was built 
the following year, Grace Church, two German Methodist churches 
and two Swedish Reformed Lutheran churches. 

In all this work Mrs. Strong was the inspiring leader, and she 
was not satisfied with anything short of real, genuine, vital, spiritual 
life and victory. 

One day a drunken woman was found on the street by a lady 
and she at once wrote to Mrs. Strong requesting the privilege of 
an interview. As the result of this interview the Home for the 
Friendless was started; Mrs. Strong was the first secretary of the 
institution. It was clearly seen that there must be a reformator}^ 
department to this work and the Magdalene Home, since changed 
to the name of the Woman's Christian Home, was organized and 
placed in operation, Mrs. Strong was made president. Perhaps 
this was the germ of the Bethany Home; for the ladies of Minnea- 
polis, after recognizing the good effect of the movement, re- 
quested the ladies of St. Paul to assist in organizing the Bethany 
Home, which is now such a successful institution; Mrs. Strong 
materially aided in this work. In fact she has been identified with 
every movement of a philanthropic nature. She has been a mem- 
ber of the "Daughters of Rebecca" for several years. In 1829 
she became a leader in temperance reform. This work brought 
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which she is Grand Worthy Vice Templer of Minnesota. Dur- 
ing all these years she has been an effective worker in the Cen- 
tral Park Methodist Church, toward which she has contributed 
of her time and money without stint. She has been an important 
factor in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 

Having performed her work so faithfully during the days of 
her strength, she now rests peacefully in her comfortable home, 
the object of the solicitious love and care of her former associates 
and co-workers. 




INTERIOR VIEW OF DYER BROS.' STORE 



W. J. DYER & BROTHER 

It is with pleasure we call attention to the firm whose ware- 
rooms are reproduced on this page. 

For a quarter of a century they have been identified with the 
best development and growth of music throughout the Northwest, 
and particularly in this city. No individuals have done more for the 
development of music as an art than the Messrs. Dyer, who have 
built up the great business of the firm of W. J. Dyer & Bro. The 
name of this firm is recognized throughout the Northwest as a 



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synonym of all that is best in the music trade. They have gathered 
together the productions of the best manufacturers of this con- 
tinent, and probably no other music house in the country is able to 
offer to its patrons such an assortment of strictly first class in- 
struments and publications as is found in the storerooms of this 
firm. 

With large stores in both St. Paul and Minneapolis, and ex- 
tensive connections both at home and abroad, the firm is in a posi- 
tion to meet every imaginable need in the musical line. It is, more- 
over, a matter of congratulation to the people of Minnesota, that a 
house of sufficient capital and enterprise exists in our midst, to 
bring to our very doors, as it were, everything in the musical line, 
including most magnificent specimens of the piano maker's art, 
Steinway, Knabe, Mehlin, Ivers & Pond, Gabler, Everett, and 
other instruments at prices equalling those obtainable in New York 
and other eastern cities. From basement to roof, their warerooms 
are crowded with musical instruments and merchandise, including 
the most complete stock of music and publications. 

To those who live at a distance from the two cities, and are 
therefore unable to make a personal investigation, and personally 
negotiate for the purchase of an instrument or musical goods, the 
editor and compilers of this work would most heartily recommend 
the firm of W. J. Dyer & Bro. We can add every assurance that 
any confidence reposed in them will not be misplaced, and we bear 
personal testimony to the integrity and upright dealing of this firm. 

The American Progressive Investment Co. 

of this state is an institution doing a national business covering a 
number of the most important states in the union, in the west and 
northwest. It has a capital stock of $100,000. Its shares are 
issued to the amount of $10.00, and it has $40,000 of the same for 
sale upon which a regular dividend of 6 per cent, is paid annually. 
It issues certificates of investment representing a par value of $250 
upon which a payment of $5 is made, and a monthly payment 
thereafter of $2.00 until the same has matured, which expert 



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authority estimates will mature in about seven years. Fifty per 
cent, of the moneys received goes monthly towards the Redemption 
Fund. The company also issues certificates of $1,000 each upon 
which an admission fee of $6.00 is charged, and a monthly pay- 
ment thereafter until maturity. These certificates will be expected 
to mature in 15 years. Actuarial investigation by leading experts 
demonstrates that at the end of seven and fifteen years the company 
will be enabled to mature the same, and if they choose make guar- 
antees to that effect. The funds are handled entirely by the 
Metropolitan Trust Company and are under direct control of the 
certificate holders themselves, and cannot be paid without their 
consent and that of the Metropolitan Trust Company. The same 
absolute safety is offered to certificate holders by this company as 
is guaranteed by the Metropolitan Trust Company to its discrimi- 
nating investors and patrons. The high rate of interest prevailing 
in this state in certain securities, and the compounding of the same 
enables The American Progressive Investment Company to offer 
absolute assurance of redemption of certificates at the estimated 
period. In order to more fully strengthen the company, thirty per 
cent. of the total amount received is set apart as a Reserve Fund. 
This, with the fifty per cent, placed in the Redemption Fund; the 
entire eighty per cent, deposited with the Metropolitan Trust Com- 
pany, of Minneapolis, one of the strongest financial institutions in 
the state, makes the payment of certificates absolutely secure. 
After two years, holders of certificates can obtain paid up certifi- 
cates with 5 per cent, interest annually and the entire amount of 
said paid up certificate payable at the end of five years out of the 
Reserve Fund. Twenty per cent, of the gross receipts is set apart 
for operating expenses. The officers of the company are: Dr. E. 
F. Adams, president, a prominent citizen; W. F. Robertson, secre- 
tary, a veteran journalist, and well and favorably known in the 
state; O. C. Lindman, treasurer, a resident of Minneapolis for 17 
years, and likewise favorably known. 



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WARREN H. HAYES, ARCHITECT 

Minneapolis, for upwards of a decade, has been noted for its 
modern church edifices of the better class. In their evolution and 
design there is one prominent characteristic in plan, viz: the 
Diagonal Pulpit arrangement originated by Warren H. 
Hayes, church architect, eleven years since. 

Nineteen of the Twin City churches are built in this man- 
ner from his plans. As arranged by Mr. Hayes, a typical church, 
on his Diagonal Plan, has an octagonal auditorium, with the 
chancel on the side diagonally opposite the main entrance, with 
amphitheatre arrangement of pews on a bowled floor, the latter 
on what is called the isocoustic curve, falling from the front toward 
the pulpit in such a way as to give all rows of pews equal sight 
angles of pulpit. The ceiling is domed and vaulted; the chapel, ai 
either the right or left of pulpit, opening into the audience room on 
special occasions fully, by automatic rolling partitions, giving the 
united audiences full view of the speaker; the positions of those in 
the chapel are as near or nearer to him even, than those in the 
main room, contrary to the old w T ay of having them twice as far 
away. 

Some examples of this arrangement from Mr. Hayes' studio at 
704-5-6, Sykes Block, Minn., are Immanuel Baptist, First Congre- 
gational, First Presbyterian, Calvary Baptist, "Wesley M. E., Fow- 
ler M. E., the latter under construction, in Minneapolis. In St. 
Paul, Central Presbyterian, across the street from the Capitol; 
First Presbyterian in Peoria, Elmwood and Hamilton, 111. First 
Baptist, Portland, Or., the finest on the Pacific coast. First Pres- 
byterian at Nanaimo, B. C, Christ Presbyterian, Madison, Wis.? 
and one at Oconto; First Congregational at Menominee, Wis.; 
Plymouth at Oshkosh; Union Congregational at Rockville, Conn.; 
First Congregational at Rockland, Mass.; First M. E. of Fargo, 
N. D., and many others. 

Some of his school buildings may be seen in the structures of 
Hamline University, St. Paul, and the Convent of the Good Shep- 
herds, near the latter. 



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Although having made church architecture a distinct branch 
of his practice for over twenty-three years, Mr. Hayes does not 
confine himself exclusively to church and school designing, as is 
readily seen when such structures as the Hugh Harrison Jobbing 
House and the H. G. Harrison blocks on Third street, and the 
Thorpe Block across the way are noted, also the Sykes fire-proof, 
eight story block on Hennepin at Nos. 254-256; also some of the 
finer residences, as H. B. Frey's on Fifth street southeast; that of 
Mrs. H. O. Hamlin, on Hawthorn; the residence of Mr. Hobart, 
Superintendent of Lakewood, at the main entrance, etc. 

Mr. Hayes prepared himself for his chosen profession, Archi- 
tecture, at Cornell University, graduating in 1871, having taken 
two President White first prizes for meritorious work in this line 
and the natural sciences. After ten years practice in New York 
he opened an office in Minneapolis, (at 408 Nicollet avenue and 
later moving to 704 Sykes Block) in 1881, as being more central for 
an expanding clientage extending from the New England to the 
Pacific states. 

With able and trained assistants and his own natural bent for 
his calling, added to the popularity of his invention, the above men- 
tioned Diagonal, Octagonal Plan often miscalled the "corner 
plan"much has been accomplished in the uplifting and adaptation of 
modern church architecture and church edifices to the requirements 
of the times. 

Particular attention is given to orders from a distance by mail, 
in giving such clients very full and clear detail drawings and speci- 
fications so that much personal supervision on the buildfng may be 
dispensed with and deputized to a local superintendent. 

THE FARRAND & VOTEY ORGAN CO. 

The city of Detroit can boast of having within her borders 
not only one of the leading firms in the music trade, but a concern 
who have by the great improvements that they have introduced 
into organ building have made themselves famous throughout 
the world. 



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The Farrand & Votey Organ Co. 

stands now in a most prominent position in the trade. In the course 
of a few years they have built up a large and extensive business, 
and have also manufactured instruments of such great merit that 
they have everywhere received the highest commendation. 

The Farrand & Votey Organ Co. can trace its original found- 
ation back to 1882, when the business was started with about 12 or 
15 employes, and for a number of years only Reed organs were 
manufactured, but they were of the highest grade only, and their 
reputation spread and the business increased, until now their ship- 
ments go all over the world. In 1888 they began to build pipe 
organs and in 1889 bought out the Granville Wood & Sons Pipe 
Organ concern and employed all their men including the firm. And 
in 1892 bought out the famous Roosevelt Pipe Organ business of 
New York and employed many of their best mechanics. They have 
built the most famous pipe organ constructed in—this country in 
the past few years, notably the great World's Fair organ in Fes- 
tival Hall, for which the World's Fair Directors gave them a sub- 
sidy often thousand dollars and the organ was their property at 
the close of the Exposition, and has since been sold to the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. 

They now have 250 employes on their pay-roll and have 
branch offices with skilled workmen, in New York, Chicago and 
Pittsburg. Their buildings are 550 feet long and most of them 
four stories and a basement. 

■ * 

THE MINNEAPOLIS DRY GOODS STORE 

This mercantile institution, which occupied such a prominen 
position among the people of Minneapolis, conducts its business 
upon the principle of reciprocity. By making the interest of the 
public its constant aim, the people have responded by a patronage 
that has steadily promoted the business activity and interest of this 
great and growing store. The Minneapolis Dry Goods Store is 
able to supply almost every necessity of life, outside of the provi- 
sion line. It is a great department store. Everything that ladies 
wear, from bonnets to gloves and shoes, is here in magnificent 



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MILLINERY DEPARTMENT 



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assortment. With the exception of clothing, hats and shoes, gentle- 
men can also be supplied, according to the latest styles. Hun- 
dreds of homes in Minneapolis have been entirely furnished out of 
the vast and varied stock of this People's Supply Palace. 
Its trade is not confined to the city, for it has a large mail order 
department which is equipped for the most effective service and 
through which thousands of orders are sent throughout the entire 
Northwest. 

This popular company is under the proprietorship and man- 
agement of the Gordon Brothers, genial gentlemen, progressive 
business men and patriotic citizens. They are members, one of 
the Westminster Church, and the other of the congregation of the 
Hennepin Avenue Church. 

They have, in the various departments of the store, an army of 
clerks, polite, wide-awake and attentive to every wish of the cus- 
tomer. Under such management and complete service it is not a 
wonder that the Minneapolis Dry Goods Store is a favorite business 
resort for a multitude of people. 

THE PALACE CLOTHING CO. 

The Palace Clothing Co. started seven years ago as the 
youngest clothing house of any prominence in the city, end yet it 
has become the largest by continually doing exactly as advertised. 
Every garment The Palace Clothing Co. sells bears its guarantee, 
and it is a rule that money will be cheerfully refunded on any unsat- 
isfactory purchase. 

It has been the custom of The Palace Clothing Co. to handle 
only the best grades of merchandise. 

The Palace Clothing Co. employ none but the very best help. 
The goods are marked in plain figures, and there is no deviation 
from those prices except to ministers, to whom they give 10 per 
cent discount. 



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The Palace Clothing Co. 
never carries goods from one 
season to another; any styles 
left over are sold to wholesale 
jobbers throughout the country. 

It is the special pleasure 
of The Palace Clothing Co. to 
meet everyone, whether they 
are purchasers or spectators^ 

Mr. Maurice L. Roths- 
child is manager of the store, 
and to him belongs the credit 
of the great advance this in- 
stitution has made. 




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CENTURY PIANO CO. 

Among the many great manufacturing industries located in 
Minneapolis, none is a greater credit to the city than the factory of 
the Century Piano Co., where the Anderson piano is manufactured. 

The factory is located on Grant street, corner of Nicollet 
avenue, and the warerooms in the five story Century building, corner 
of Fourth street and First avenue south. 

The Anderson piano is the marvel of the age, and is to-day 
without a rival in volume and perfection of tone. 

From The Musical Courier — "It is much to the credit of the 
new concerns who are beginning to manufacture pianos in the West, 
that they are setting for themselves a standard of excellence far 
higher than one would expect, and that they seem to have an abid- 
ing faith that fine grade goods are the ones that will in the long 
run meet with more encouragement than cheap trash. 

"From what has been already said regarding the Anderson 
Piano one expects to find the instruments excellent, and they are 
not a disappointment. Made in a factory where nothing in the 
shape of machinery is wanted to aid experienced workmen, one 
glance shows you that they are, so far as workmanship is con- 
cerned, all that vou can ask for. 

"Mr. John Anderson is responsible for the scale, and in quality 
and power and freedom from overtones 'it is certainly remarkable. 
The company will not permit any inferior materials of any kind to 
enter into the construction of the Anderson piano; the best of 
everything is used, and in some features they have had difficulty 
in procuring the quality of the material desired, and some of our 
supply houses have been put to considerable trouble to meet the 
exacting demands of this new company." 

In addition to manufacturing the Anderson piano, the Century 
Piano Co. is general western agent for the Henry F. Miller, 
Sterling and many other fine pianos, and the Story & Clark 
and Sterling organs. 

Their warerooms in the Century building are among the 
largest and finest in this part of the country, and are completely 
stocked with everything in the music line. 



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T.J. Z1EGLER 

Manager Browning, King & Co. 




This is the Minneapolis branch 
of the famous firm of Messrs. 
Browning, King & Co., manufac- 
turing retailers of fine clothing and 
furnishings, whose principal offices 
are located in New York City at 
406-412 Browne street. They have 
also very extensive branches in St. 
Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Mil- 
waukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Phil- 
adelphia, Omaha, Lincoln, St. Paul, 
Harlem, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., 
Providence, R. I , and Boston, Mass. The premises occupied in 
Minneapolis at 415, 417 and 419 Nicollet avenue comprise a super- 
ior three-story and basement building 44x140 feet in dimensions, 
fully equipped with all modern appliances, steam heat, electric 
light, passenger and freight elevators, etc. 

The basement is devoted to the dynamos and steam heating 
plant, the first floor to gents' furnishings, hats, caps, ready made 
clothing and spring overcoats, the second to the boys' and chil- 
dren's departments, while the third floor is fully stocked with 
men's overcoats. They employ forty clerks, salesmen, etc., in 
Minneapolis alone, where they transact an extensive business. 
This is easily accounted for, when the quality of the goods is taken 
into consideration with the low prices at which they are offered to 
customers. We would observe that the clothing and furnishings 
manufactured by Messrs. Browning, King & Co. are absolutely 
unsurpassed in the United States for quality, elegance of design, 
finish and workmanship, and their ready made garments of the 
finer grades are quite equal to the best custom work in the country. 
Their sales amount to over $9,000,000 annually, and last year they 
urned out 1,367,000 garments, and paid for labor $1,500,000. They 
employ some thousands of hands, and are heartily in accord with 
all labor organizations, believing them to be of the utmost public 



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good, a protection against the enslavement of the poor and a guar- 
antee of legitimate profits to the employer. The fact that this 
popular firm treats its employes so justly should always commend 
their stores to laboring men and women who appreciate the rec- 
ognition of organized labor. The Minneapolis branch is under 
the able and energetic management of Mr. T. J. Ziegler, who is 
highly esteemed by the community. Mr. Ziegler was born in Car- 
lisle, Perm., 1846. He engaged in the clothing business in Illinois from 
1869 to 1884; Janesville, Wis., from 1884 to 1891; Minneapolis 
from 1891 to 1894 as manager of Browning, King & Co., the 
largest makers of fine ready-to-wear clothing in the world. The 
output of this large concern for the past year was over nine million 
dollars and over a million and a half of this amount was paid out for 
labor. Mr. Ziegler is a thorough clothing man, having been 
brought up in it from a boy. Aside from the management of 
Browning, King & Co's. Minneapolis store, he owns and controls 
several clothing stores of his own in the states of Iowa and Wiscon- 
son which are all under his supervision and management. He is 
certainly one of the most successful clothing merchants of the day. 
He is very fond of Minneapolis and a firm believer in the future of 
the great and phenomenal city. 

C. A. SMITH 

C. A. Smith was born in Vermont in 1830. His parents 
were old line Baptists, always loyal to the church and intense 
in their religion convictions. They lived on a farm and the sub- 
ject of this sketch devoted his earlv years to farming. He was 
early impressed with the importance of education and availed him- 
self of the meagre opportunities of those times to acquire a com- 
mon school training. This was accompained with great disadvant- 
age, for the farm demanded most of his time and energy, and the 
district school, open but a few months in the year, was scarcely 
worthy the name of school, yet young Smith was alert to his op- 
portunities and made what advancement was possible. 

At the age of twenty-two he was married to Miss Elizabeth 
Jefts, to whose faithfulness and good common sense much of his 
subsequent means is due. He continued on the farm until he was 



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thirty-one years of age, when he removed to Waltham, Mass., 
and engaged in the bakery business for eight years. He then 
came to Northfield, Minn., where he engaged in carpentering for 
four years. 

From Northfield he moved to Minneapolis, his present home. 
Soon after coming to Minneapolis he located at 3501 Portland 
avenue, where he has lived ever since. It was here, at his Port- 




SMITH FLORAL DESIGN 



land avenue home, that he started with one greenhouse, in the 
business that is now second to none in the floral line in the city. 

There were few flowers grown in Minneapolis then, and the 
market was scarcely large enough to encourage the business. Mr. 
Smith is really the pioneer florist of Minneapolis, for when he 
began there was but one greenhouse in the city and that was more 
private than commercial. It was impossible to buy a dozen roses 
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his greenhouses show thirty-five thousand feet of glass. This rep- 
resents five houses of roses, one house of carnations and one of 
violets, besides a large supply of bedding plants and bulbous 
flowers. 

Seven men are constantly employed in the care of this im- 
mense property. Mr. Smith is an artist; he does all kinds of floral 
decorations and makes a specialty of furnishing churches for Easter 
Sunday. His business place is at 77 South Seventh street. 



INTERIOR VJEW OF 

Geo. Vetters' 

Hat and Fur Store 

25 and 27 South Fifth Street, Hinneapolis, Minn. 

MANUFACTURER OF 

High Grade FURS Only 

Sealskin Garments A Specialty 

Sole Agents for the World Renowned 

KNOX HATS ~ 

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Nothing Like It 

In the entire country: Our Establishment. We have just right 
to be proud of it. We are House Furnishers; we are Office Furnishers; we are 
Hotel Furnishers; we are Church Furnishers; we are Lodge Furnishers, but pre- 
eminently House Furnishers. It is the Homes of the people that interest us. 
We shall talk it to our dying day, that the last place for a man to economize is 
in his Home, and if we never make a record for anything else, we shall be remem- 
bered for everlastingly having preached and dinned into the ears of the public 
the word Home! Home! Home! 

Wonder if you know what kind of an establishment the "New England" is 
anyway. We cover more floor space than five full sized blocks, or, to put in 
another way, than ten blocks the size of the Syndicate Block. 

But it is not floor space than counts. It is the stuff we show on it. We defy 
you to mention a thing that can possibly be called a feature of House Furnishing, 
but what we can supply, and instantly. Our immense amount of space enables 
us to do what no other establishment in the country can do. viz: To carry 
Complete Assortments in both Very Fine, Medium and Low Cost Goods. 

Yes, we furnish the Drawing Room, the Hall, the "Den", the Library, the 
Dining Room, Home Chamber, Guest Chamber, "Baby's Room" and all. Nor do 
wr leave out the Kitchen, the Basement, or Servant's Room. We shade 3'our 
Windows, drape your Walls, carpet your Floors, furnish you Chairs to sit in, 
Lounges to laze on, Beds to sleep in, including the choicest and daintiest Bed 
Linens; Tables to eat off of, and not only the Tables, but the choicest China, Glass 
and Cutlery- 

Why, do you know that many a party comes to us, not to shop, but to 
select? What does this mean? That they rightly give us the credit for having 
the noods they need, while, as to prices, why, everyone knows that the New 
England has always set the pace in price making. So it is an every-day occur- 
rence for Intending House Furnishers to bring their lists to us: sit down quietly; 
compare their ideas with ours; frankly tell us about how much money they want 
to put into their House Furnishings, and with our assistance, secure a most 
tastefully furnished home. 

Nor is this all. Our Credit Plan of House Furnishing is directly in line with 
the goods themselves. It is utterly reliable, and simplicity itself, purposely ar- 
ranged for the mutual benefit of our customers and ourselves. You leave an 
order with us, say for S100 worth of goods, pay for them, receive a receipted 
bill and cordial thanks. 

On the other hand, if you prefer, instead of paying us the $100 in a lump, to 
pay us, say $20 down and the balance every 30 days, in payments of $8 a month, 
we thank you just as much, take the same care of you, and feel the same respon- 
sibility as to your perfect satisfaction with goods selected, (perhaps a little more 
so) as in the Cash Transaction. 



Is it Wise to Furnish Now? We most thoroughly believe so. It is never, 
never wise to have a comfortless home! It is perfectly wise, at the present time, 
on account of the extraordinarily low prices prevailing. 

It Sounds Like Nonsense to say that we can furnish a little home of five 
rooms, say Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room and two Chambers, with 
Shades, Draperies, Carpets, and Good Substantial Furniture, for $200. But we 
do it every day. 

Oh, bless your heart! Who practices true economy? Think a moment. Per- 
haps it is you, but we doubt it. Most of us spend our money impulsively, rack 
our bones in some uncomfortable Chair, dim our eyes by the same old miserable 
Lamp; miss our train through the ramshackle old Clock; broil our wife's or ser- 
vant's faces over a broken-winded Stove, where we have to keep all the drafts 
open and force the fire, burning double the amount of fuel we ought to, because 
we won't plan to get a new and economical Stove, when that would save its 
cost in fuel in a winter; eat off old, cracked and greasy Dishes, enough to take 
away a person's appetite; tread on faded old Carpets, enough to give a person 
the nightmare, when a new one could be had at six hours notice. And what 
have you got on your walls? Some old chromos and prints, inherited (from the 
former tenant)? 

Oh! come now, that is not economy— that is shiftlessness. Then, there's 
your duty to your children. Do you think it simply consists of feeding, clothing 
and schooling them? Why, that's only the shell. The kernel is to have an at- 
tractive home — so bright and cheerful; always something new coming into it — 
that they look on it as a little heaven. Perhaps you yourself would not stray 
away quite so often if things were a little more as they oughter-be. 

Well, we have about preached our sermon. What we wanted to say was 
this: For the finest goods that go into the house, come to the "New England." 
For the commonest, (but reliable) goods that go into the house, come to the 
"New England." For Assortment, for Prices, for Terms, for Prompt Service and 
Extension of every Liberal Accommodation, come to the most Wide Awake, 
Progressive, Painscaking House Furnishing Establishment in the whole 
county— That same "New England." 

We are prepared to furnish $10, $100, $1,000 or $10,000 worth of House 
Furnishings instantly, and not only do we furnish Homes, but we are the larg- 
est furnishers of Offices, Hotels, Churches, Lodges, Schools and Public Buildings 
in this section of the countrj 7 . 

Estimates cheerfully given; samples furnished; correspondence solicited. 

New England Furniture & Carpet Company 

The Liberal House Furnishers, 
6th St., 5th St. and ist Av. S., flinneapolis, Minn. 



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The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. 




The General Passenger Department of the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee & St. Paul R. i?., under the head of "Hints to Travelers" 
gives this advice 

When you start upon a railroad journey, select a road^^^_^> 

That affords excellent and most comfortable 
facilities. 

That traverses a delightful and picturesque 
portion of the country. 

That has — and merits — the reputation of 
strength and reliability. 

That enjoys popularity and is stamped with 
public approval. 

That has a substantial roadbed and most 
frequent train service. 

That regards, always, the comfort, ease and 
safety of its patrons. 

That furnishes the latest private compart- 
ment cars and latest library-buffet-smok- 
ing cars. 

That furnishes elegant drawing-room parlor 
cars, free reclining chair cars, and 
sumptuous dining cars. 

That has exclusive use of the electric berth 
reading lamp. 

IT is needless to say that if 11 above hints' 1 are heeded, travelers will use 
''The Milwaukee." Its name in the Northwest is synonymous with comfort, 
strength, reliability and progress. It has also taken the lead in modern improv- 
ments and appliances. The people West of the Mississippi River are indebted in 
a large measure to The Milwaukee for the present facilities and means of com- 
fort now greatly enjoyed. Five trains run daily ; one through the Twin Cities 
to Chicago; one to St. Louis, and one to Kansas. 

The immortal Lincoln said "Follow the people and you cannot be far from right." 

The "People" use THE MILWAUKEE 

IT is a sign of the growth and power of the Northwest that one finds such magnificent 
* trains as are encountered on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The traveler as he 
occupies a place in one of these elegant flying palaces and reads by the individual and 
private electric light in h's section or apartment feels that the great through lines in the 
East have nothing to make the West envious or ashamed. The great Pennsylvania road 
and the famous New York Central may find here models for improvment. 

If one must travel, The Milwaukee leaves the least possible to desire. Speed, ease, 
elegance, safety, punctuality — what more shall I say? 

Always sincerely, 

C. H. Fowler. 



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E. C STERLING, President, St, Louis, Mo. R. F. JACKSON, Asst. Sec. and Treas, 

H. W. ELIOT, Sec. and Treas., St. Louis, Mo. S. J. HEWSON, Gen'l Mgr., Minneapolis, Minn. 



Northern Hydraulic-Press BriGk Go. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 



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Works at 
MENOMONEE, WIS. 
and WRENSHALL, MINN. 



Other Offices: 
ST. PAUL, DULUTH 
WEST SUPERIOR 




INTERIOR VIEW OF EXHIBIT ROOM 

NO. 10 N. THIRD STREET, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

Hydraulic Press BricK> al1 <3oior? 

Ornamental Brick Mortar Colors Wire Lath 

Veneering Brick Lime Rolling Steel Shutters 

Fire Brick Cement Rolling Partitions 

Fire Clay Hair Roofing Tile 

Flue Linings Stucco Encaustic Tile 

Sewer Pipe Mineral Wool Roofing Pitch 

Ready Roofing Sheathing Paper 

Sole Agents for King's Windsor Cement Plaster 

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ESTABLISHED 1867 
INCORPORATED 1891 



Johnson=Landis Undertaking C°- 

Successors to VAIL & JOHNSON 




The Only Exclusive Methodist Firm 
in This City in this line of business 



PRICES LOW AS THE LOWEST 

gpeeial f^ales ©iven for All Qharity (J&ses 

All business entrusted to us will receive our Per- 
sonal Attention. No inexperienced or unskilled 
help sent out under any circumstances. Lady Assist- 
ants furnished when requested. 

Mithodist Patronage Solicited. Prompt response to calls at all hours 

OFFICE, 614 NICOLLET AVE. 

TELEPHONE 275 NEARLY OPPOSITE GLASS BLOCK 

J. H. JOHNSON GEO. W. SHUilAN W. H. LANDIS 

Hember of Wesley Aember of Hennepin Ave. Hember of Franklin Ave. 

372 



OLDEST AND LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE NORTHWEST 



IROWN * HAYWOOD ISO. 

STAINED GLASS WORKS 

COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS CARRIED OF 

P late: and Window 

— - — -GLASS . . 

fibbed j%Iigt)t f{Ia$ and French Bpflw? 

WE MANUFACTURE 

§and iSlast, Revelled 

(Jrystalline and 

Ornamental ©lass 



124, 126, 128 N. Third St. 41 East Third St. 

MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL 



CHURCH WORK A SPECIALTY 

Send for Catalogues, Designs and Estimates 

373 



Jahes Bladon 
& Co 

ARTISTIC 



JAMES BLADON 
F. E. HERTHUM 



Fixtures 



GAS 

• • and ELECTRIC 

626 NICOLLET AVENUE 
Telephone 875 Minneapolis, Minn. 



INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF ILLINOIS 



• -THE- 

Bpfl$ Jp f]E[(CHAMTf> 

Life Association 

OF ILLINOIS 

OFFICE: THE TEMPLE, CHICAGO, II I 

= = = OFFICERS = = = 
JAilES W. STEVENS, President 

WILLIAM D. PRESTON, Treasurer 

EDWARD D. STEVENS, Secretary 
FRANK 0. LOWDEN, Counsel 

JOHN W. STREETER, H. D., Hed. Dir. 

C. E. HAMBLETON, Qen'I Hanager 

METROPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK, Trustee of Reserve Fund 

LIMIT OF AGE, 18 TO 60 YEARS 

LIMIT OF INDEMNITY, MALES, $10,000 

LIMIT OF INDEMNITY, FEMALES, $5,000 

....ADVANTAGES 

Incontestable after two years 

Surrender Value after ten years 

Nonforfeitable after five years 

Half the face value of policy paid on permanent 

total disability at any time 
Dividends to cheapen costs after ten years 
Reduction of Two Dollars per Thousand in cost 

after five years 



LIFE INS URANCE AT COST 

J. W. EARL, Manager 

Minnesota State Agenoy 

Lumber Exchange, flinneapolis 




NICKEL PLATE 

NEW YORK 
CHICAGO AND 
ST. LOUIS 

RY. 

THROUGH TRAINS 

CHICAGO 
TO ALL POINTS EAST 

| EAVES Chicago 2.00 p. m. daily, arrives New 
York 8.00 p. m . , except Sunday. The car leaving 
Chicago on Saturday reaches New York at 6.30 a. m. 
Monday. 

Niagara Falls 

Remember that the Shortest Line to Niagara Falls, via Cleve- 
land and Buffalo, is the Nickel Plate Road. 

Passengers holding through tickets to points east of Syracuse, will 
be permitted to stop over at Niagara Falls on application to the Con- 
ductor of the Nickel Plate Road, or at the City Ticket Office, No. 23 
Exchange Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 

For reservation of sleeping car space and further information address 

H. THORNE, City Ticket Agent, J. Y. CALAHAN, General Agent, 
Telephone "Main 389," Telephone "Main 389," 

199 Clark Sr., CHICAGO. 199 Clark St, CHICAGO. 

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M. C. KUMMEfiER 

Poetical Watch Ma^er 



iiiiiintmgniim 



FINE WATCH WORK 

A SPECIALTY 



gsiimimigiinaii 



AH worK clone 017 Short Notice 
5atisfactioi) Guaranteed or t\ory^y Refunded 



940 Guaranty Loan Building 

Minneapolis, = = Minnesota 



Watch inspector for 

MINN. & ST. LOUIS RY. CO. 
-® \dyj THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. CO. 
\Q THE GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO. 



Jewelry Repaired at Reasonable Prices 

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* H (Soob IFnvestment 




is ever sought for by shrewd business men. Do you know of any investment that 
will bring your church any better returns than fitting your building throughout 
with modern and attractive furniture that combines elegance and comfort in the 
highest degree, with the beauty and harmony of interior church decorations. 

rt Quality is the Bid of Superiority, cheapness the bid of inferiority. Don't 
experiment — buy the best, you will find it the cheapest. 

The Manitowoc Seating Co., of Manitowoc, Wis., is a Northwestern insti- 
tution. Its extensive plant, recently erected and thoroughly equipped with the 
latest improved machinery and skilled workmen, places it in the lead for Church 
Furniture of all kinds. Their goods are sold only by specialists by sample and 
special drawings. 

300 Churches were seated by them in 1893. A Church for every day In 1894 

Their designs are unique. Their work is first-class. 

Their prices are consistent with the grade of work. 
If your church is in need of furniture, address, 

The Manitowoc Seating Co. 

Manitowoc, Wis., U. S. A. 

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HART'S PHARMACY 



A. B. HART, Phm. D. and Registered Pharmacist 



A FULL LINE OF 




pure ©rugs 
patent /Bbebtctnee 



U/ri^t's apd I^iel^e^er's p^rfun)e$ apd 
Joil^t /IrtiGl^s 



Domestic and Imported Cigars 



We also Claim Superior Advantages for Filling 
Physician's Prescriptions 



1229 Nicollet Ave., Cor. 13th Street 
Telephone Vifg* MINNEAPOLIS, fllNN. 



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PLAITS ap< 
ORNAMENTAL. 




Plastering 




2210 Eighteenth Ave. S. 
Minneapolis 




H. Downs & Son 




o o o 




2tt 



HEAVY MASONRY A SPECIALTY 



Lumber Exchange (Building 

Quarries: State and Essex St. E. (D. 



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Jgamab^ & Co. 





ap«i A\er?'s 
Furthers 



. AGENTS FOR • • • 



The Dunlap Hat 

Manhattan Shirts 
Dr. Jaeger's and 

Jaro's Underwear 



7 Washington and 234 Nicollet Aves. 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



Nicholson Bros. 



(Tatlore 



709 NICOLLET AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN 





J~Jave in stock a choice selection 
of Imported and Domestic 
Woolens and make a spec= 
ialty of English Novelties for 
the best trade at moderate 
prices 



Try our $6.00 Pants. Try our $25.00 Suits. 

Try our $25.00 Overcoats. 



. . . THEY WILL PLEA5E YOU . . . 



Send your collections on all Northwestern Points 



-TO- 



THE SECURITY BANK OF MINNESOTA 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 

F. A. Chamberlain, President Perry Harrison, Cashier 

Henry M. Knox, Vice-President Thomas F. Hurley, Ass't Cashier 

E. F. Mearkle, Second Vice-President 

THE 

Security Bank of Minnesota 



MINNEAPOLIS 

Surplus and Undivided Profits, 500,000 
Capital, - - $1,000,000 



$1500,000 



Accounts of Banks, Bankers, Corporations, Manufacturers, 
and others received on the most favorable terms 



Special attention given to Collections on Minneapolis, St. Paul and 
throughout the Northwest 

Buy and sell Foreign Exchange and issue Travelers 9 Letters of Credit available in all 

pa rts of the World 



With our list of correspondents covering all points of importance in Minnesota, Iowa, North 
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington, we are enabled to 
collect promptly and at lowest rates 

SPECIAL RATES 

With all Express Companies for shipment of Currency. Interest allowed on Daily Balances to Banks and 
Bankers. Telegraphic Transfers made 

All business entrusted to us will be attended to carefully and without delay 

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J. A. BERNARD H. D. DICKSON 

Rochester Shoe Co. 

701 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis 
Reliable Ciood^ at l^ou/^st pn\<^5 




We sell none but reliable goods. 

We guarantee all goods as represented. 

We sell Ladies' Shoes at $ 1 .25, 1 .50, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50 
4.00 and 5.00. 

We sell Misses' Shoes at $ 1 .00, 1 .25, 1 .50, 1 .75 and 2.00. 
We sell Children's Shoes from 25c. to $ 1 .25. 
We sell Men's Shoes at $ 1 .25, 1 .50, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50 
4.00 and 5.00. 



ALL ARE ASSURED COURTEOUS TREATMENT 

WHETHER YOU PURCHASE OR NOT 

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Price J^ros. Printing £o. 

Book anb Job printing 
Embossing 

Blank Book flDannfactudng 

Third Floor Palace Block 

323 Nicollet Avenue 

XTelepbone 171 Minneapolis 



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THE SECURITY 

MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION 

PHELPS BANK BUILDING 



BINGHKMTON, IS . V. 





. DIRECTORS . . . 




H.J. Gaylord, 


Jas. M. Stone, 


J. W. Manier, 


Jas. K. Welden, 


W. G. Phelps, 


Geo. W. Dunn, 


Chas. M. Stone, 


Cyrus Strong, Jr., 


Chas. M. Turner. 


Insurance in force July 1, 


1894, 


$12,000,000,00 



Surplus, °W D :ttE„ K .SS WM - - - 273,062.68 

The Association issues Equation, Whole Life, and Annuity Pol- 
icies at low rates, and returns all surplus accumulations in dividends, 
which may be used to reduce future Premiums, to make the Policy 
self-sustaining, or may be drawn in full in CASH. 

L-. K. THOMPSON, 

Manager Northwestern Dept. 

800=4 Guaranty Loan Bldg. 



^Minneapolis, Minn. 

387 



CHICAGO 

GREAT 

WESTERN 



F. H. LORD 

Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent 
C. H. HOLDRIDGE 

Gen'l Agent Passenger Dept. 
R. W. THOMPSON 

City Pass, and Ticket Agent 



RAILWAY 

The Fast and Popular Line between 

MINNEAPOLIS 

ST. PAUL 

and CHICAGO 



THE SHORT AND ONLY LINE 
UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT BETWEEN 

MINNEAPOLIS m KANSAS CITY 

— £ THROUGH 2— 

Marshalltown, Des Moine?, St. 3o?eph $p Leayenworth 



Pullman and Compartment Cars on Through Trains 
Dining Cars on all Trains 



For information as to rates, time of trains, etc., apply to 

R. W. THOMPSON 

City Passenger and Ticket Agent 

No. 7 Nicollet House Block MINNEAPOLIS 

388 



REFERENCES ESTABLISHED 1886 

Security Bank 
A\*tropoIita.r> B&oK 
Heprjepirj County BaoH 



NOTARY PUPL-IC 

AGENT FOR LOWRY HlLJL 



Hordes and Fin* Re^idenc*? 

. . Acr^s . . 
Business and Building Lots 



326 SLwyw^LYi si*®*,. J^JjH^yi^ijJ^A^A^ 



389 



JOHN WUNDER 



Contractor 
and 

Builder 

NO. 8 KASOTA BUILDING 

^elepbone 911 




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QlIARANTY RESTAURANT 



The Guaranty Restaurant stands at the head of its department 
in the Northwest. It is doubtless better located, officered and 
equipped than any restaurant northwest of Chicago. 

It is located on the top floor of the Guaranty Loan Building, 
from which the entire city can be seen stretching out like a 
panorama of beauty. 

Under the proprietorship of Mr. C. B. Struble, the service is 
all that could be required by the most fastidious. It is elegantly 
furnished, both in the general and private rooms, reflecting the 
finest taste and the most artistic arrangement. 

Its bill of fare, always laden with the products of the season, 
and the freshest and best in the market, is good enough for a king. 

While the Guaranty Restaurant commands the best trade of 
the city, the prices are within easy reach of all. It is the resort 
of business men. 

Always bright, clean, cheerful and attractive, it is at once a 
dining palace of which the people of Minneapolis are justly proud. 

To try it once is to become a regular patron. 




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A. J. DAHL & CO. 

General 



Bookbinders 



252 Heooepin Ave. 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. . 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 

Art Binding and Publishers' Work 



Gilding of all Descriptions 
Edition Work in all Styles 



Fine Art Bindings $ Embossing in 

QObD t SILVER or ifiK 



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